United States v. David Leigh King

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• holding that where King voluntarily mailed letters to his wife, his expectation of privacy terminated upon delivery to her
• holding that where King voluntarily mailed the letters at issue to his wife and did not expect her to return them, “his expectation of privacy in the letters terminated upon delivery of the letters to his wife”
• “[I]f a letter is sent to another, the sender’s expectation of privacy ordinarily terminates upon delivery.”
• “[T]he sender’s expectation of privacy ordinarily terminates upon delivery * * * even though the sender may have instructed the recipient to keep the letters private.”
• “the sender’s expectation of privacy” in contents of a letter “ordinarily terminates upon delivery” regardless of whether “the sender may have instructed the recipient to keep the letters private”—internal citations omitted
• expectation of privacy in letters addressed to wife terminated on delivery to her

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).