How have courts considered the effect of private motive on a search in deciding whether to extend Fourth Amendment protections to private activity?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. North, 111 Cal.App.3d 694, 168 Cal.Rptr. 775 (Cal. App. 1980):
People v. Zelinski (1979) 24 Cal.3d 357, 155 Cal.Rptr. 575, 594 P.2d 100, is similarly to be distinguished. There, the court considered the effect of private motive in conducting a search in deciding whether to extend Fourth Amendment protections to private activity. The court stated:
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