After the California trial court denied Ciraolos motion to suppress evidence
of the search, he pleaded guilty to a charge of cultivation of marijuana.
HELD:
-The touchstone of Fourth Amendment analysis is whether a person has a
constitutionally protected reasonable expectation of privacy, which involved
two inquiries of:
1. Whether the individual manifested a subjective expectation of
privacy in the object of the challenged search
2. Whether society is willing to recognize that expectation as
reasonable
-In pursuing the second inquiry, the test of legitimacy is not whether the
individual chooses to conceal assertedly private activity but whether the
governments intrusion infringes upon the person and societal values
protected by the Fourth Amendment