United States v. Sergeant JARED D. HERRMANN

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “[o]nly the building owner or landlord could bring suit” against a trespasser in a multi-unit dwelling and collecting cases thereto
• remarking that “[n]either Jones nor the common law provides sharp boundaries for the meaning of trespass”
• explaining that “the [curtilage] question is not whether the area at issue was within the walls of the building, but whether it was enclosed and intimate to [the] apartment itself”
• assessing whether plaintiff's lease conferred \exclusive property interest in any part\ of shared common space
• applying the Dunn factors to hold that multi-unit dwelling’s shared basement laundry room and storage space was not in the curtilage of tenant’s apartment
• collecting cases and listing factors as proximity of area to home, whether area is in an enclosure surrounding home, use of area, and whether steps have been taken to protect area from observation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).