The following excerpt is from United States v. Jones, 893 F.3d 66 (2nd Cir. 2018):
Our precedents establish that because an individual has no power to exclude another from a common area, a defendant has no legitimate expectation of privacy in a "common area [that is] accessible to the other tenants in the multi-family apartment building." United States v. Fields , 113 F.3d 313, 321 (2d Cir. 1997). In United States v. Holland , 755 F.2d 253, 255 (2d Cir. 1985), we held that because
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