Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2/10/1999

Commonwealth v. McCarthy

Citations

428 Mass. 871
705 N.E.2d 1110
1999 Mass. LEXIS 37

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noting that regular and intended use for tenant parking does not give rise to curtilage designation
recommending that police seeking to search both apartment and vehicle request \separate warrant\ for vehicle rather than rely on expectation that vehicle would be located within curtilage
parking space within shared parking lot in multi-unit apartment complex not part of apartment’s curtilage
search of apartment tenant’s automobile is outside the scope of a search warrant authorizing the search of his apartment, but not his automobile
“Because the defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the visitor’s parking space, the space was not within the curtilage of the defendant’s apartment.”
proximate to a single family home, enclosed by a privacy fence, reasonably shielded from the view of neighbors or the public

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