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· 8/25/1976

United States v. Leland Carriger

Citations

  • 541 F.2d 545
  • 1976 U.S. App. LEXIS 7423

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the reasonable-expectation-of- privacy test did not replace but, rather, added to the Fourth Amendment’s property- based approach
  • “[W]hen, as here, an officer enters a locked building, without authority or invitation, the evidence gained as a result of his presence in the common area of the building must be suppressed.”
  • Katz and the case law before it, when considered together, should be read as holding that trespassing is one form of intrusion by the government that may violate a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy

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Judges: McCree, Lively, Allen

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