Write a paper that addresses the following legal issues

Scenario/Facts

Your neighbor Dan has recently been arrested and charged with
manufacture and possession of methamphetamine in violation of your
state’s law. The charges are based on evidence that police officers
found in Dan’s garbage can, including glass bottles and jars, metal
cans, plastic tubing, empty Pseudoephedrine cardboard boxes, and
household use batteries with residue matching the chemical compounds of
methamphetamine. Dan placed the garbage can at the curb for weekly
garbage pickup. A police officer riding with the garbage truck driver
picked up Dan’s garbage; Dan’s garbage was kept separated from all other
garbage.

Based on the items found in Dan’s garbage can, police officers
prepared and obtained a search warrant to search Dan’s house where they
found additional evidence of illegal narcotics.

Dan’s attorney plans on filing a motion in court, asking the court to
suppress/exclude the evidence found in Dan’s garbage can on the basis
that the police officers violated Dan’s Fourth Amendment rights when
they took his garbage. Will Dan’s attorney be successful?

Write a paper that addresses the following legal issues. Be sure to support your discussion and comments with research:

• Explain whether the wording of “persons, house, papers and effects” in the Fourth Amendment applies to Dan’s garbage.
• Has there been a search or seizure within the meaning of the Fourth
  Amendment in this case? In other words, was there a search or seizure of
  Dan’s garbage that triggers Fourth Amendment issues?
• Does Dan have a “reasonable expectation of privacy” in his garbage can sitting at the curb? Why or why not?
• Discuss whether you feel that the judge properly issued the search
  warrant for Dan’s house. In other words, what is the standard of proof
  for police officers to obtain a warrant? Be sure to define probable
  cause.