This is hardly a test for restroom privacy, and perhaps a testament to stupidity.
CNN is reporting on a "couple" who entered a convenience store restoom together and refused to answer knocks from police. Eventually they came out, allegedly looking like they had been rather busy inside.
It was only after going back in that the police arrested one of them. Geesh. Of course that led to a challenge of privacy in public bathrooms, but it was dropped.
As reported on newsmax:
"The FourthAmendment protects people and not places,'' Judge Donald Lay wrote for the three-judge 8th Circuit panel. In Hill's case, ``it was not a single person using the single toilet restroom but two persons of opposite gender and, under the circumstances, we hold that they had a diminished expectation of privacy which had expired by the time the officers arrived.''
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