Walter Olson in
Commentary, May 1996:
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.
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