Kathryn Marie Pulkingham v. the State of Texas

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• concluding that defendant had standing to challenge search where he entered his friend's home to take a nap
• holding that social guests have Fourth Amendment expectations of privacy in others’ homes
• finding Fourth Amendment standing in the case of a guest who had known his host for “about two weeks,” had slept at the host’s home two to four times, and had once entered the home unannounced to take a nap
• no “absolute test for the presence of exigent circumstances” so the determination “depends upon the unique facts of each controversy”
• “[a]bsent exigent circumstances, th[e] threshold [of the house] may not reasonably be crossed without a warrant”
• \[The Carter ] Court drew a clear distinction between the status of individuals present at a residence for social purposes and those present for business or commercial matters.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).