United States v. Lee Ronald Stevenson

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• noting that appellate courts must defer to the trial court’s fact-finding function on motion to suppress
• explaining that the test for abandonment is whether the defendant “retains a reasonable expectation of privacy” in the property at issue (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that the Fourth Amendment’s protections “extend[] to apartments, rented rooms within a house, and hotel rooms so that a landlord may not give the police consent to a warrantless search of a rented apartment or room”
• “When a person voluntarily abandons his privacy interest in property, his subjective expectation of privacy becomes unreasonable . . . .”
• at a motion to suppress hearing, trial judge could rely primarily upon letter written by defendant to his girlfriend regarding his intention to relinquish his interest in the apartment
• “If appellate courts were to begin the practice of making competitive findings with respect to undisputed or documentary evidence, they would usurp the trial function . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).