Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Indian Boy X v. United States
439 U.S. 841
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1978-10-02
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- holding that search of defendant’s garbage, located inside a low fence, by a trash collector at the FBI’s request did not violate the defendant’s reasonable expectation of privacy
- finding no abuse of discretion in admitting under Rule 803(5) statement of witness to agent relating conversation that took place six months earlier
- at direction of the FBI, garbage men collected and searched through trash placed in cans located behind Shelby’s garage and immediately inside a low fence adjoining public alley
- "In our view the placing of trash in the garbage cans at the time and place for anticipated collection by public employees for hauling to a public dump signifies abandonment."
- trash left outside a house for collection
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.