What Was the Conclusion of the Case Minnesota v. Carter and What Was the Precedent That Was Set?
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I need help figuring out what is the conclusion of the case Minnesota v. Carter and what was the precedent that was set?
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Answer by Craig B
So the defendant’s were arguing that much of the evidence obtained in a search relating to drug offenses should have been suppressed (i.e. not used in the court case) in which they were found guilty. Their argument is that the events leading to the evidence being obtained, and several statements, were as a result of an officer observing them through an uncovered window in a ground floor apartment, and that this was an unreasonable search and violated their 4th amendment right to privacy in the apartment.
The conclusion of the court was that the defendants could not expect the same right to privacy as in this case the apartment was not theirs. It was owned by a 3rd person that the defendants had only met on this one occasion, and they had stayed for only several hours and in the course of a business transaction.
The precedent is that short-term visits for purely commercial transactions, without prior connection to the householder do not invoke protection from the 4th amendment, unlike that enjoyed by residents and their overnight guests. The 4th amendment is a personal right – so in this case the owner of the apartment would have been protected by the 4th, but not Carter and Johns, the defendants in this case.
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