United States v. Frederick Alonzo Waller

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that defendant had standing to contest search of bag located inside a friend’s home because he kept secret the bag’s contents and clearly asserted authority over bag
• holding that a transient person who was never an overnight guest had a reasonable expectation of privacy in a friend's apartment where he showered, changed clothes, and kept some personal possessions
• holding that defendant had standing to contest search of bag located inside a friend = s home because he kept secret the bag = s contents and clearly asserted authority over bag
• holding that a defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy at another person’s apartment that he used “primarily for showering, changing clothes, and storing his personal belongings,” including in a bedroom closet
• noting that failure to make further inquiry was “especially pronounced” when owner was in next room so that inquiry would not have been burdensome
• reasoning police wouldn’t have opened a suitcase if they thought it belonged to the consenting party because the consenting party wasn’t a suspect

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).