The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Pulliam, 405 F.3d 782 (9th Cir. 2005):
only through the introduction of damaging evidence secured by a search of a third person's premises or property has not had any of his Fourth Amendment rights infringed." Rakas v. Illinois, 439 U.S. 128, 134, 99 S.Ct. 421, 58 L.Ed.2d 387 (1978). Thus, a person seeking to exclude evidence allegedly obtained in violation of the fourth amendment must have standing to challenge the illegal conduct that led to the discovery of the evidence. "[T]o say that a party lacks fourth amendment standing is to say that his reasonable expectation of privacy has not been infringed. It is with this understanding that we use `standing' as a shorthand term." United States v. Taketa, 923 F.2d 665, 669-70 (9th Cir.1991) (citation omitted).
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