{"id":4550,"date":"2011-01-11T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T08:36:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T08:36:39","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4550","title":{"rendered":"NY2: Failure to pay motel for room means no reasonable expectation of privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the rent on a room is unpaid, the occupant has no reasonable expectation of privacy in it. The officers conducted a knock-and-talk to evict defendant for noise and unpaid fees, and the officers smell burnt marijuana and could see scales from the door. He admitted to smoking marijuana in the room. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.ny.us\/reporter\/3dseries\/2010\/2010_06382.htm\">People v. Hardy<\/a>, 2010 NY Slip Op 6382, 77 A.D.3d 133, 907 N.Y.S.2d 244 (2d Dept. 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Gant should not be retroactive to a search that occurred before it was decided because there is no deterrent effect on officers. United States v. Tschacher, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 81092 (D. Neb. May 20, 2010).*<\/p>\n<p>Defense counsel can choose the issues to appeal, and the record shows that the decision not to appeal a search claim was justified because defendant would not have prevailed because probable cause was shown. United States v. Thao,  2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 82260 (D. Minn. August 12, 2010)* (considering Gates\u2019s \u201csoft standard\u201d of probable cause, it would take a really bad case to win on appeal).<\/p>\n<p>There was reasonable suspicion for defendant\u2019s stop for DUI because of his touching the fog line 16 times. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndcourts.com\/_court\/opinions\/20100009.htm\">State v. Mohl<\/a>, 2010 ND 120, 2010 N.D. LEXIS 118 (June 30, 2010).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4550\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}