PA: Defendant’s front driveway not protected curtilage where his damaged car was parked and anyone could walk up

The police did not violate curtilage by walking up to defendant’s car parked in his front driveway that had been damaged in a hit-and-run, was missing a bumper, and had its airbags deployed. Commonwealth v. Simmen, 2012 PA Super 268, 58 A.3d 811 (2012).

Defendant had no standing to challenge the search of her murder victim’s car parked in the victim’s driveway. State v. Jackson, 2012 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 1003 (December 10, 2012).

The trial court erred in concluding that the police, on answering a domestic dispute, were required to ask for consent from the defendant, too, under Randolph, after his girlfriend consented to a search of a drawer revealing three guns. People v Watson, 2012 NY Slip Op 8562, 101 A.D.3d 913, 955 N.Y.S.2d 411 (2d Dept. 2012).