Karima Chami v. Ahmad Abunamous

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• holding that the totality of the circumstances supported probable-cause determination despite confidential informant’s lack of personal observation of criminal activity
• concluding that a search was unreasonable where law enforcement exceeded the scope of a warrant that authorized the search of a duplex’s first-floor unit by searching the basement
• concluding that a search was unreasonable where law enforcement exceeded the scope of a warrant that authorized the search of a duplex’s first-floor unit by searching the basement
• holding that defendant had an objectively reasonable 9 expectation of privacy in basement of duplex because access to that area was “limited to the duplex’s tenants and landlord”
• holding that the officer exceeded the scope of the warrant by searching the basement
• holding that defendant exhibited subjective expectation of privacy in basement of duplex by hiding cocaine there and that expectation was objectively reasonable because basement was accessed by only landlord and defendant’s family members who occupied duplex

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