UNited States v. White

While White was on parole from an Illinois state prison sentence, police suspected that he was involved in a shooting and had a warrant to arrest him. Before the police found White, they located his gym bag that he had left in his cousin’s at. Without a search warrant, but relying on a condition of his parole that required White to agree to searches of his property, the police opened the bag and found a gun. White was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm after the court denied his motion to suppress evidence of the gun on the ground that neither he nor his cousin had consented to the search of the bag. The Seventh Circuit affirmed. The search of the property of a suspected parole violator who had agreed in writing to consent to property searches and whom the police could not locate was reasonable. View "UNited States v. White" on Justia Law