United States v. Reynaldo Miravalles, Jr.

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• holding that a reasonable belief that relevant evidence in the apartment, including paper cigar labels, was in imminent danger of destruction and, therefore, exigent circumstances existed
• reasoning that common areas in an apartment building are available for the use of other tenants, visitors of other tenants, the landlord, delivery people, repair workers, and the like
• finding that tenants in a “large, high-rise apartment building, the front door of which has an undependable lock that was inoperable on the day in question,” have no reasonable expectation of privacy because the public at large could enter building’s common areas
• no reasonable expectation of privacy in common areas of high-rise apartment building where front door had an “undependable lock that was inoperable on the day in question”
• no reasonable expectation of privacy where the lock on the front door of the apartment building was not working on the day police entered the building
• no reasonable expectation of privacy where the lock on the front door of the apartment building was not working on the day the police entered the building

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).