United States v. Johnson

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. § 922(g)(1). He conditioned his plea on the right to challenge on appeal the district court’s decision not to suppress the evidence…