United States v. Allan Dale Long

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• holding that the “public accessibility” to the discarded trash, not its location in the curtilage, is the dispositive -8- inquiry
• “[I]t is difficult to imagine anyone using an area in which garbage was regularly deposited for the intimate activities of the home.”
• “The credibility of witnesses . . . fall[s] within the province of the district court.”
• “Even if we were to conclude that the trash bags were within the curtilage, Defendant would not prevail. . . . Defendant must still show that he had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the trash bags. Defendant fails to do so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).