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212066P.pdf   06/09/2022  United States  v.  Mosley Williams
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-2066
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Wollman, 
   Circuit Judge] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. The government appeals an order suppressing 
   evidence. The district court erred in suppressing the evidence found 
   during a warrantless search of a bag; the sole lessee of the apartment, 
   defendant's girlfriend, had actual and common authority over the apartment 
   and consented to a search of the entire apartment; the bag was in a common 
   area in the apartment, appeared to a gender neutral item, and the officers 
   could reasonably believe that she had authority over the bag and could 
   consent to its search.