Carol McGehee v. Allstate Fire and Casualty Insurance Company

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• cigarettes and matches left on counter in public area of police station; expectation of privacy not reasonable
• life sentence affirmed for juvenile convicted of breaking into apartment and murdering eighty-seven year old widow with butcher knife in her sleep
• individual had no reasonable expectation of privacy in a package of cigarettes left on a police counter for several hours
• photographs with evidential value \are not rendered inadmissible solely because they are gruesome or may have an inflammatory effect on the jury\ [quotation omitted]
• judge’s factual findings at evi-dentiary hearing determine whether government’s conduct intrudes on defendant’s reasonable expectation of privacy so as to constitute search in constitutional sense
• \trial judges must take care to avoid exposing the jury unnecessarily to inflammatory material that might inflame the jurors' emotions and possibly deprive the defendant of an impartial jury\

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