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Officers investigating stolen tablets went to a house shared by a suspect and his roommate. The roommate answered the door and said, "You can search the living room and my bedroom, but not his bedroom." The suspect stood behind the roommate and said, "Do not come in." Officers arrested the suspect in the doorway on an outstanding warrant and took him away. Thirty minutes later, the roommate again consented to a search of the living room, where officers found a backpack containing tablets. Later, police impounded the suspect's illegally parked car and, following a written inventory policy, opened unlocked containers in the trunk and found more tablets. At the local public school, an assistant principal searched a student's backpack for a missing tablet after receiving a teacher's tip and found drug paraphernalia.
The suspect and student seek suppression of the evidence.
Analyze the Fourth Amendment issues involving consent, inventory search, and school search.