A houseguest who secretly placed recording devices in the host’s home did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the storage cards that the devices contained, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. 

A trial court improperly held that a driver’s consent to a blood draw was involuntary and, as a result, wrongly suppressed the blood-draw evidence at his drunk-driving hearing.

A police officer did not have the authority to search a backpack belonging to the passenger in a vehicle because the officer did not first obtain the passenger’s consent.