How does expectation of privacy come into play then? I was under the assumption that they needed a warrant to search somewhere the average person expected privacy.
What if LE were standing in the kitchen or dining room and seen it laying on the headboard in my bedroom, could they go in the bedroom and seize it? And in finding it would that give them right to search the whole house or just seize what they seen in my bedroom?
My significant other of 12 years had an altercation in our home, she's a severe alcoholic and violent towards herself. I came home from work and she was intoxicated and we argued and she grabbed a knife and threatened to cut her arm, I grabbed her arm and took the knife away and put her arm...