Pate v. Municipal Court

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• defendants exhibited reasonable expectation of privacy drawing motel room window curtains to avoid observations from area open to public
• defendants exhibited reasonable expectation of privacy drawing motel room window curtains to avoid observations from area open to public
• police violated Fourth Amendment by climbing trellis and peeking through a one-inch opening in drawn drapes of motel room
• “[c]learly, by drawing the curtains on the window of a motel room which was located on the second floor of the building and at a considerable distance from any public vantage point, appellants exhibited a reasonable expectation of privacy”

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