Opinion ID: 2827389
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Post-Warrant Search of Blazer

Text: Long also challenges the officers’ search of the Blazer parked in the OC Store’s public parking lot. “Fourth Amendment rights are personal rights that may not be asserted vicariously.” United States v. Barragan, 379 F.3d 524, 529 (8th Cir. 2004). “To mount a successful motion to suppress, an accused must first establish that he personally has a legitimate expectation of privacy in the object that was searched.” United States v. Stringer, 739 F.3d 391, 396 (8th Cir. 2014). Long admits he did not own the Blazer, and Long has provided no evidence suggesting he had any constitutionally protected connection to the vehicle or its contents. See, e.g., United States v. Marquez, 605 F.3d 604, 609 (8th Cir. 2010) (deciding a defendant who -13- “neither owned nor drove the [searched vehicle] and was only an occasional passenger therein” could not challenge the search of the vehicle). Long thus has shown no reasonable expectation of privacy in the Blazer and cannot now contest the search of the vehicle. See id. But Long proposes the officers violated his reasonable expectation of privacy in searching the Blazer because the vehicle was parked in what he describes as his business’s curtilage. We are not convinced. Cf. United States v. Reed, 733 F.2d 492, 501 (8th Cir. 1984) (concluding defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the “open back parking lot” of his business). Long cites no authority for the proposition that a business owner has a reasonable expectation of privacy in all the vehicles parked in his store’s public parking lot. Thus, Long had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the Blazer and cannot challenge its search.