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044170P.pdf   03/23/2006  USA  v.  Robert Elam
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-4170
   Western District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - criminal law. Facts available to police officer at the 
   time consent to search was given were sufficient to cause a person of 
   reasonable caution to believe that the person giving the consent had 
   authority to give permission to search a cabinet in the common area of the 
   home; when a third party with apparent authority gives unequivocal 
   consent, and the defendant is present and fails to disclose a superior 
   privacy interest and object to the search, there is no intentional bypass of 
   defendant's rights.