Wayne Thomas Carter and Melvin Johns
Respondents
Bradford Colbert and Scott G. Swanson, Counsels of Record Mr. Swanson, a 1987 summa cum laude graduate of William Mitchell College of Law, is the Assistant Minnesota State Public Defender assigned to represent Wayne Thomas Carter. Mr. Colbert, a 1985 graduate of William Mitchell College of Law, is the Assistant Minnesota State Public Defender assigned to Melvin Johns. The following is excerpted from the Brief for Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on June 15, 1998.The Minnesota Supreme Court held that Respondents, as social guests, had a legitimate expectation of privacy in the home they were visiting, and,…
