"[T] here is no standing to contest a search and seizure where, as here, the defendants:(a) were not on the premises at the time of the contested search and seizure;(b) had no proprietary or possessory interest in the premises; and (c) were not charged with an offense that includes, as an essential element of the offense charged, possession of the seized evidence at the …

" `[A] defendant is entitled to a fair trial but not a perfect one,'for there are no perfect trials. "

—finding Bruton error harmless where the erroneously-admitted evidence was "merely cumulative of other overwhelming and largely uncontroverted evidence properly before the jury

First, standing to invoke the exclusionary rule has been limited to situations where the government seeks to use such evidence against the victim of the unlawful search.

"Fourth Amendment rights are personal rights which, like some other constitutional rights, may not be vicariously asserted."

—admission of the out-of-court statement of a nontestifying codefendant in violation of the Sixth Amendment Counsel Clause

Unlike circumstances extant in Jones, the Government's case against the petitioners in Brown did not depend upon the petitioners' possession of the seized evidence at the time of the contested search and seizure.

It added: "Again, we do not decide that this vice of prosecutorial self-contradiction warrants the continued survival of Jones'`automatic'standing now that our decision in Simmons has removed the danger of coerced self-incrimination. We simply see no reason to afford such `automatic'standing where, as here, there was no risk to a defendant of either self-incrimination or …