Interstate Indem. Co. v. East 77 Owners Co., LLC

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• recognizing no Fourth Amendment right in hidden compartment, where authorities gained access through \common area\ on deck of ship
• finding that once officers had probable cause to search a vessel, it was not unreasonable to ask the crew of the vessel to travel to a harbor forty miles away in order to conduct the search
• gathering cases and noting ship crew’s expectation of privacy in living and sleeping quarters
• gathering cases and noting ship crew's expectation of privacy in living and sleeping quarters
• discussing structural characteristics and modifications of boat as factors in decision
• “However, the instant case does not involve the search of such private spaces as the sailors’ sleeping quarters or personal belongings; rather, this was a search of a secret compartment beneath the deck of the boat.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).