U.S. v. JOHNSON

No. 08-4031.

584 F.3d 995 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Eric Dustin JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

October 27, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bretta Pirie (Steven B. Killpack, Federal Public Defender, with her on brief), Salt Lake City, UT, for Appellant.

Diana Hagen, Assistant United States Attorney (Brett T. Tolman, United States Attorney, with her on brief), Salt Lake City, UT, for Appellee.

Before BRISCOE, EBEL and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.


EBEL, Circuit Judge.

This case presents the novel issue of whether an individual can have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in a storage unit rented with a stolen identity. During a search of a storage unit that Defendant-Appellant Eric Johnson's girlfriend had rented in someone else's name, police discovered two firearms. Johnson eventually entered a conditional guilty plea to one count of being a felon in possession of firearms, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §...

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