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Another point is that the rent-payer or owner of dwelling has "standing" in the courts to challenge an illegal search and seizure (which the above example clearly is not). If someone is not renting a room or a house, and is in fact under the supervision of parent or parents, then his or her room is not protected because there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. That is why the parent(s) can give permission to search their son or daughter's room. The son or daughter do not have a proprietary interest in that room.
Since the son or daughter will not give consent, then the parents can.
And if it is not coerced, fine, no provision of the Constitution is violated.
I mention this in case it is thought that the mere occupant of a bedroom necessarily has legal standing in court to challenge even an illegal search.
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Surrounded and outnumbered, Marine Col Lewis Puller: "Good! We finally got 'em where we want 'em!" (Korea, 1950)
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Right is Wrong and Wrong is Right.
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