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Unit 10: Assignment

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Application Assignment #1 and #4

Question 1: Assuming the motel owners' consent was valid, should the police have had a warrant? Does the defendant have a reasonable expectation of privacy that would exclude the evidence from trial? See Abel v U.S., 362 U.S. 217, 80.Ct. 683 (1960)

Since the motel owners have the authority to consent to the search because the defendant had already checked out the police doesn't need a warrant. And since consent searches are an exception to the warrant requirement the defendant does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy that would exclude the evidence from the trial. As for the case Abel v U.S., 362 U.S. 217, 80.Ct. 683 (1960) in this the defendant

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