· 8/31/1988
United States v. Lacey Lee Koenig and Lee Graf
Citations
- 856 F.2d 843
- 1988 U.S. App. LEXIS 12655
- 1988 WL 93655
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- concluding that one of the defendants had no privacy right in a package when he was neither the sender nor the addressee of the package
- noting that the agency analysis in the Fourth Amendment context shares the same \highly factual nature\ as the common law agency analysis
- noting that the two critical factors “are not independently sufficient to convert a private search into a governmental search”
- inquiring (1) whether the government knew about and acquiesced to the intrusive conduct, and (2) whether the private party acted in self-interest or to assist the government in obtaining incriminating information
- inquiring (1) whether the government knew about and acquiesced to the intrusive conduct, and (2) whether the private party acted in self-interest or to assist the government in obtaining incriminating information
- the analysis must be made “on a case-by-case basis and in light of all of the circumstances”
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Judges: Cummings, Cudahy, Coffey
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