Logan v. Commonwealth

JAMES W. BENTON, JR., Judge.

A police officer entered the rooming house where James Gregory Logan resided, saw Logan in possession of cocaine on the second floor, and arrested Logan. At a hearing on a motion to suppress the cocaine, the trial judge ruled that the officer’s warrantless entry into the rooming house did not violate Logan’s rights under the Fourth Amendment because Logan had no “reasonable expectation of privacy in the area in which the officer observed the [drug] transaction.” Logan contends on appeal that the trial judge erred in ruling that he *217had no reasonable expectation of…