State of Iowa v. Marvis Latrell Jackson

WIGGINS, Justice.

A police officer conducted a warrantless search of a closed backpack belonging to the defendant. The officer relied on a third party’s consent in conducting the search. The third party possessed actual authority to consent- to a search of the bedroom the backpack was in but lacked actual authority to consent to a search of the backpack-itself. The defendant moved to suppress the evidence found in the backpack and the fruits of the search on the ground that the third party had neither actual authority nor apparent authority to consent to the search of the backpack. He argued…