Opinion ID: 176775
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Use of agent

Text: Had the Domenech brothers rented Room 22 under their own name, they unquestionably would possess a legally cognizable expectation of privacy. See Allen, 106 F.3d at 699. That they used an agent to rent the room for them does not change this. The D.C. Circuit focused on the relationship of self-registration to one's expectation of privacy in a hotel room in United States v. Lyons, where a key to the room that had been rented on [the defendant's] behalf was given to him by a third party (whose identity remains secret).... 706 F.2d 321, 324 (D.C.Cir. 1983). The court held that one can possess a reasonable privacy expectation even though lacking a legally enforceable contract or property right to the room because each [guest] regards the space provided for him as his temporary place of abode. Id. at 327; see also Washington, 573 F.3d at 283 n. 1 (A person may acquire a reasonable expectation of privacy in property in which he has neither ownership nor any other legal interest.).