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221071P.pdf 11/04/2022 United States v. Matthew Langenberg
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 22-1071
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Eastern
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Colloton and Stras, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. The company's co-owner had apparent
authority to consent to a police search of defendant's company-provided
cell phone; he had possession of the phone, had access through a passcode
to the phone's content, claimed ownership of the phone, and told the
officers he had searched the phone and found child pornography; on these
facts, the officers reasonably believed he had authority to consent to the
search.