Richard A. Houghtaling v. Connecticut

I. Whether the petitioner’s Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by (1) the Connecticut Supreme Court’s holding that the petitioner did not exhibit a subjective expectation of privacy under Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967), and therefore had no standing to challenge the warrantless entry and search of residential property that he owned, but was leasing to another individual, with whom the petitioner was cultivating marijuana on the property, and (2) the Connecticut Supreme Court’s refusal to allow the petitioner to challenge the warrantless entry and search of his leased property on an alternative theory of property-based standing, under the principles of United States v. Jeffers, 342 U.S. 48 (1951). (i)