California vs. Greenwood

Even if you committed a murder and the evidence showed you killed but there was no search warrant the case gets demised. The Held of the case was privacy does not give rise to the fourth amendment. The respondent exposed his garbage to the public to sufficiently defeat the claim to Fourth Amendment constitutional protection. Garbage left at the side of the road is readily accessible to animals, children, scavengers, snoops, and other members of the public. Moreover, the garbage was placed at the curb for the purpose of conveying it to a third party. .
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             As stated by Justice Marshall, " So long as a package is closed against inspection, the Fourth Amendment protects its contents, wherever they may be, and the police must obtain a warrant to search it. The respondent deserves no less protection just because he used the bags to discard rather than transport his personal effects. Their contents are not any less private, and the respondent's desire to discard them in the manner in which he did does not diminish his expectation of privacy. Had the respondent flaunted his intimate activity by strewing his garbage over the curb for all to see, or had some governmental intruder done the same, the resulting belief would be that this is unreasonable. However, the mere possibility that unwelcome meddlers might open and rummage through the containers does not negate the expectation of privacy. ".
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             The effect that this case and its decision have on U.S Criminal Justice was agreeable. The drug that was found is a crime but the search was uncalled for. Yes you may have the evidence but in court everything is done by the law and the constitution. If you don't have a search warrant then you cannot search he premises and show the evidence in court. A hypocritical situation where this decision would be applied in a real-life situation will be a person who has drugs uses waste as in a garbage can. There was a suspicious activity going on and the police was called in.