Court Opinion

ID: 9474948
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 05:13:06.074145+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:44:25.177016
License: Public Domain

HUG, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I concur in parts I-VI of the majority opinion, and in part VII for the reason expressed in sub-part A. I find it unnecessary to reach the issues in sub-part B.
Were it necessary to reach those issues, I would dissent, on the ground that this is an unwarranted extension of the “vehicle exception.” I see a significant difference in the expectancy of privacy in a motor home located in a public parking lot, such as involved in California v. Carney, — U.S. -, 105 S.Ct. 2066, 85 L.Ed.2d 406 (1985), and a motor home located in a private driveway under the circumstances involved in this case. Here the motor home was connected with the utilities in the residence. The persons utilizing the motor home were not persons who would be driving the vehicle away before a warrant could be obtained, but teenagers under the supervision of the resident of the house. The location and use being made of this vehicle was much more akin to a functional part of a private residence than to a motor vehicle on the highway, where the vehicle exception is meant to apply.