Court Opinion

ID: 9498053
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 17:07:03.030508+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:58:35.532146
License: Public Domain

NOONAN, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I write separately to state that, while I join the opinion I’ve written, it seems to me that we are engaging in the drawing of fine distinctions that do not need to be drawn. The simple facts here are that a householder wanted illegal property out of her home. Fay’s expectations have no bearing on her right to get it out.
A guest who brings a bunch of banknotes into the house, tells his host that they are the proceeds of a bank robbery, and leaves them in a bag in the guest room has no legitimate objection to his host turning him in and turning over the bag. A guest who brings to his host’s home drug paraphernalia and tells his host that he’s hiding it in the closet has no reason to believe that his host will not telephone the police and tell them to pick the paraphernalia up. The felon who shows his girlfriend that he is keeping a firearm in the laundry room has no privacy claim that she can’t rid her house of a gun by asking *591the police to remove it. On what possible basis can a man committing a crime and admitting that he is doing the criminal deed claim that his confidant should preserve his secret?
A person cannot disable his host from bringing criminal proceeds or paraphernalia or weapons to the attention of the police nor invoke the Fourth Amendment when his host seeks to disassociate herself from his criminal conduct by summoning police assistance.