United States v. Larry Ventling

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• finding that the defendant did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in his driveway which was in public view
• no Fourth Amendment violation by United States Forest Service Special Agent who entered publicly visible driveway where defendant had posted “no trespassing” signs but did not maintain a locked or closed gate
• officer who photographed tire tracks on private driveway and around the front porch of a rural home did not invade the home’s curtilage
• “The standard for determining when the search of an area surrounding a residence violates fourth amendment guarantees no longer depends on outmoded property concepts, but whether the defendant has a legitimate expectation of privacy in that area.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).