State v. Breuer

How courts have described this case

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• holding that to determine lawfulness of police conduct, court must balance “the intrusion on [the defendant’s] Fourth Amendment interests against promotion of legitimate governmental interests”
• holding that officer’s warrantless entry into area of apartment house in which defendant had legitimate expectation of privacy was reasonable in view of officer’s need to investigate complaint of reckless driving
• holding that law enforcement officer without warrant did not unreasonably invade suspect’s legitimate expectation of privacy by opening unlocked outer door of apartment build- ing and proceeding up stairway to apartment door
• holding that law enforcement officer without warrant did not unreasonably invade suspect’s legitimate expectation of privacy by open- ing unlocked outer door of apartment building and proceeding up stairway to apartment door
• stating “the Fourth Amendment protects only against unreasonable government intrusion upon a person’s legitimate expectation of privacy” (emphasis added)
• concluding deputy’s actions in opening the unlocked outer door of Breuer’s apartment building and proceeding up the stairway to knock on Breuer’s apartment door did not unreasonably invade Breuer’s legitimate expectation of privacy with respect to the stairway

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).