What is the case where a police officer's observations were made from a trellis through a narrrow aperture in the curtains into a motel room that was on the second floor and 'at a considerable distance from any public vantage point'?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Lorenzana v. Superior Court, 108 Cal.Rptr. 585, 511 P.2d 33, 9 Cal.3d 626 (Cal. 1973):

This is not a case where the officer's observations were made from a trellis through a narrrow aperture in the curtains into a motel room that was on the second floor and 'at a considerable distance from any public vantage point' (Pate v. Municipal Court, 11 Cal.App.3d 721, 89 Cal.Rptr. 893), or from a narrow outside ledge between two floors of a hotel through an apperture made by the blinds into a hotel room (People v. Myles, 6 Cal.App.3d 788, 790--791, 86 Cal.Rptr. 274), or from a fire escape outside a fourth floor apartment (Cohen v. Superior Court, 5 Cal.App.3d 429, 434--435, 85 Cal.Rptr. 354).

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