United States v. Aaron L. French

How courts have described this case

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• holding defendant had “no reasonable ex- pectation of privacy in the driveway and gravel walkways” leading to his home
• noting that areas within twenty feet of the home generally have higher expectations of privacy
• acknowledging the deference given to a judge’s credibility determination where the judge had the oppor- tunity to observe firsthand the verbal and nonverbal behaviors of the witnesses
• reasonable for an officer to walk up gravel driveway and walkway to talk to defendant working on car outside
• “privacy expectations are most heightened when the area in question is nearer (within 20 feet) to the home”
• “We review a trial court’s findings of fact in a suppression hearing for clear error.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).