United States Fifth Circuit

A homeowner has a reasonable expectation of privacy in a vehicle, owned and operated by a third party but parked on the homeowner's driveway, if the evidence seized was in the vehicle parked on his property and he knew of the contraband inside the vehicle.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/20/2001
• Published 12/20/2001

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, SMITH and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Angela S. Raba (argued), Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Mary Stillinger (argued), El Paso, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.