{"id":63054,"date":"2026-02-05T13:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63054"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:37:22","slug":"ga-visitor-has-no-rep-in-common-areas-of-hosts-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63054","title":{"rendered":"GA: Visitor has no REP in common areas of host&#8217;s home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The MV\u2019s grandmother suspected defendant was molesting her granddaughter. She placed a video camera in the living room. It was obvious with a red light on it, and there was a sign that a camera was in use. He moved to suppress under state law that this was a recording in a private place. As to him, this was not a private place where he had no reasonable expectation of privacy. \u201cGenerally a visitor has no expectation of privacy in the common area of someone else\u2019s home.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/efast.gaappeals.us\/download?filingId=573ccc0e-2b44-40c9-a508-635a748fac16\">Pamplin v. State<\/a>, 2026 Ga. App. LEXIS 60 (Feb. 3, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither the exclusionary rule nor a harassment exception applies to supervised release. United States v. Velazquez, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21748 (D. Utah Feb. 2, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was probable cause for the stop itself and then reasonable suspicion for a protective sweep under the seat of the car. United States v. Valentin, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21851 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 3, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MV\u2019s grandmother suspected defendant was molesting her granddaughter. She placed a video camera in the living room. It was obvious with a red light on it, and there was a sign that a camera was in use. He moved &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63054\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22,18,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exclusionary-rule","category-protective-sweep","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63054","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63080,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63054\/revisions\/63080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}