Commonwealth v. Sergienko

How courts have described this case

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• because police officer’s observation of evidence in plain view implicates no privacy interest, there is no search in constitutional sense
• an officer may use a flashlight to view an object that could otherwise be seen in plain view during the daytime
• observation of an item in plain view “involves no intrusion into an area in which the defendant has a reasonable expectation of privacy” and does not rise to the level of a search
• use of flashlight to look into automobile in parking lot not a search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).