United States v. James Fields Christopher Crawley

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• concluding that the defendant possessed a legitimate expectation of privacy in an apartment to which he was invited by a guest of the tenant, and where he spent “several hours before being interrupted by [a] police intrusion”
• holding that even if statutory sentencing enhancement was ambiguous on its face as to “cocaine base,” defendants could not benefit from rule of lenity where term clearly applied to their dealing in crack cocaine
• holding plain view applied when police looked through “plainly visible five- to six-inch gap” in blinds
• discussing how overnight guests have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the homes of their hosts
• requiring defendant to do “more than posit the possibility” of the CI testifying in his favor, such as actually pointing to evidence or information suggesting the CI might testify in that way
• defendant had standing to challenge search of an apartment where, among other factors, defendant paid $125 a week to use the apartment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).