Malone v. Vasquez

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• holding that non-resident defendants had no legitimate expectation of privacy in apartment in which they briefly conducted drug-dealing activities
• holding that defendants lacked a legitimate expectation of privacy because they did not have a relationship with the home owner, but rather were “simply permitted on the premises”
• holding that expectation of privacy in commercial premises is different from, and indeed less than, a similar expectation in individual’s home
• holding that an overnight guest has a legitimate expectation of privacy in the host's home that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable
• recognizing that legal protections inure to residents of a home “even when they merely occupy it rent free — so long as they actually live there”
• holding that individuals present in home merely to engage in drug trafficking activity have no reasonable expectation of privacy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).