Feng Xie v. New York City Health & Hosps. Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• finding no Fourth Amendment right to privacy in the.hall closet of a two-unit dwelling when “[t]he evidence showed that two other tenants, as well as the landlord, had access to the closet”
• finding no reasonable expectation of privacy where there was no possessory interest in the common area, other tenants had access, and defendant failed to show that he had made efforts to exclude others from the area
• involving a hall closet shared with the other tenant of a duplex
• finding no reasonable expectation of privacy even though the duplex’s closet under the staircase was in close proximity to the defendant who resided on the first floor because other tenants also had access to the closet
• finding no reasonable expectation of privacy in the hall- closet because, among other, factors, the two other tenants, as well as the landlord, had access to 'the closet and the de fendant failed to “exclude others from the space”
• noting as factors relevant to the showing \whether the party has a possessory interest in the things seized or the place searched; whether the party can exclude others from that place; whether the party took precautions to maintain the privacy; and whether the party had a key to the premises\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).