Court Opinion

ID: 9491403
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 14:13:18.636793+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:54:43.338636
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MURPHY, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the result reached by the court because Lorie Fischer’s entry into Mr. Miller’s room in the halfway house was reasonably foreseeable to him. See United States v. Paige, 136 F.3d 1012, 1020 (5th Cir.1998). We have not previously applied the Jacobsen private search rule to an individual’s residence, see United States v. Rouse, 148 F.3d 1040 (8th Cir.1998) (package); United States v. Mithun, 933 F.2d 631, 634 (8th Cir.1991) (automobile), but the facts of this case make its application here appropriate. Since the home has long been afforded heightened protection against invasions of privacy, see California v. Carney, 471 U.S. 386, 390, 105 S.Ct. 2066, 85 L.Ed.2d 406 (1985); Paige, 136 F.3d at 1021 n. 11, I would not extend the Jacob-sen rule beyond circumstances where an intrusion by a private actor into a residence was reasonably foreseeable to the owner or tenant.