S.D.Ga.: Def was a day visitor, and it was tenuous at best he had standing; once he left, he sure didn’t

“As an initial matter, it is not clear that Lang even has standing to challenge the warrant. Lang testified (against the advice of counsel) that he was merely a temporary guest in his girlfriend’s mother’s residence, there to help ‘clean up’ after its owner/occupant’s death, that law enforcement did not search the premises while he was present and had refused to consent to any search, and that he was already in custody at the time the warrant was executed the following day.” … “Defendant has not met his burden to show that he had a subjective — much less a legitimate — expectation of privacy sufficient to challenge the search of someone else’s home, in which he was no more than a visitor, when he was no longer present.” United States v. Lang, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 218641 (S.D. Ga. Dec. 11, 2018), adopted, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2679 (S.D. Ga. Jan. 7, 2019).

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