United States v. Donald J. Dien, Sanford S. Gendler, and Michael E. Dakota, Defendants

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• holding that marijuana hidden within sealed cardboard boxes was not within “plain view,” so that the boxes could not be opened without a warrant
• defendant manifested expectation of privacy by securely taping cardboard boxes and secreting them behind plywood barrier in van whose windows had been blacked out
• taped cardboard box behind the driver’s seat inside a van, the windows of which had been painted over
• taped cardboard box behind the driver's seat inside a van, the windows of which had been painted over
• invalid warrantless search of cartons that had been taped shut and placed behind plywood barrier in van with windows painted over
• warrant required for search of locked metal box

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).