For essays: remember to copy and paste discussion questions into your response; divide your response into separate and well organized paragraphs; use andboldfaceterms from the vocabulary page as graded in the rubric; define yourvocabulary termsbefore you apply it to your analysis, cite to your class materials to bolster and anchor your points, use examples from your materials (you may also use examples beyond our material (for examples only)), just remember to cite them. While essays for a class on this level are often expected to be 500 - 700 words, I will accept all essays that are at least 100 words for this essay.

Explain how the principles of standing affect whether one may seek a remedy for a 4th Amendment violation. In your answer make sure to consider the following:

What is "standing" and who, within the 4th Amendment, and who possesses it?

Explain who does (not) have standing for the people listed on the chart below, and why. What case(s) can you find in the materials that provide authority for your response?

Finally, assuming one does have standing, how does one go about exercising their 4th Amendment rights in contemplation of trial? Define this instrument, and explain how it works.

A passenger in a vehicle owned by someone else.
Overnight guests - e.g., D is in town visiting F. D stays overnight in F's house for two nights. While D is there, the police execute a search warrant of F's home. What expectation of privacy does D have in the room where they are staying as an overnight guest?
Possessory interests in items that are seized from someone else (e.g., the item belongs to A, but is in B's backpack)
Commercial transactions - e.g., person A buys things from the local hardware store; to what extent should the items purchased, the cost, the method of payment, etc., be shared by the store, about their customer?
Targets of police investigations - e.g., D is the target of a police investigation. The police are conducting surveillance of D's home and work.