{"id":7945,"date":"2013-06-13T06:57:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T11:40:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T11:40:27","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7945","title":{"rendered":"CT: No REP in rooming house&#8217;s common storage area in attic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant lived in a rooming house, and he had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the attic storage shared with others. He could not deny others access to the area. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jud.state.ct.us\/external\/supapp\/Cases\/AROap\/AP139\/139AP26.pdf\">State v. Pierre<\/a>, 139 Conn. App. 116, 54 A.3d 1060 (2012).<\/p>\n<p>Being asleep or passed out behind the wheel of a parked car on a motel parking lot with the motor running was reasonable suspicion of being under the influence. Defendant allegedly consented to a search of his car, and that included a locked safe box in the trunk. Either way, it would have been opened in an inventory. Two guns were found, and defendant was a convicted felon. An older state case said that closed containers could not be opened, but federal cases were contra, including Florida v. Wells. United States v. Ashmore, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 159577 (E.D. Tenn. November 7, 2012).*<\/p>\n<p>Bricks of heroin found \u201cas plain as day\u201d in an open change purse in the defendant\u2019s car. All the factors for a plain view were clearly present. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/114059np.pdf\">United States v. Jones<\/a>, 503 Fed. Appx. 174 (3d Cir. 2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7945\">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-7945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945","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=7945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}