United States v. Lee Alton Presler, A/K/A Robert Ray Presler, A/K/A Robert L. Curtis

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• upholding a warrantless search where the defendant's landlady had not seen him for some time and an unusual odor was emanating from his room
• warrantless entry of apartment upheld where landlady observed unusual odor and requested that police investigate
• “The very act of locking them and retaining either the key or the combination to the locks on the two briefcases was an effective expression of the defendant’s expectation of privacy.”
• \The very act of locking them and retaining either the key or the combination to the locks on the two briefcases was an effective expression of the defendant's expectation of privacy.\
• illegal search where bailee consented to search of locked briefcase whose keys had been retained by defendant
• officers’ search pursuant to burglary investigation held violative of Fourth Amendment under Mincey

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).