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Looks to me like the court agrees that his bedroom could have been a container had he properly secured it with a deadbolt lock or something and not just pushed the thumb lock on his doorknob.
Bad cases make bad law. The defendant's argument appears to have been a hail mary pass to come up with an ex post facto manner of declaring his room to be "safe storage". The court could not assume he was lying about using the privacy lock absent proof or evidence beyond a general understanding of how such locks are generally utilized, so it no doubt based its decision on the outcome it desired in the case.