In Detroit, a rapist held fourteen-year-old Angela Skinner [no relation] captive in his apartment, threatening to shoot her if she tried to escape. When police broke down a padlocked door to free her, she led them to a closet where he kept his guns. The rapist was convicted, but on appeal a federal court excluded the weapons from evidence and overturned his conviction because the police had obtained Angela's permission alone to look in the closet, and not his.
5/7/96
Walter Olson in Commentary, May 1996:
