United States v. Richard S. Oswald

How courts have described this case

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• defendant retained no reasonable expectation of privacy in luggage left in unlocked, burned-out car at side of highway
• “[A] guilty conscience cannot create an expectation of privacy that would not otherwise exist.”
• suitcase left in burned-out automobile on side of highway
• “Where an ordinary person could fairly be said to have abandoned his privacy interests by failing to come forward, a reasonable expectation of privacy cannot be thought to have been retained solely by virtue of the fact that the person happens to be guilty of a crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).