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CA6: Transferring suitcase of drugs to co-conspirator's car was waiver of REP

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

As a part of a drug conspiracy, defendant transferred a suitcase from one car to a co-conspirator’s car. He lost any reasonable expectation of privacy in the suitcase by transferring it to another car and out of his control. United States v. Ocampo, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 23538, 2010 FED App. 0701N (6th Cir. November 15, 2010) (unpublished).* The informant’s information was detailed and specific, and it was corroborated by a phone call with the defendant the police were listening in on. State v. Butler, 2010 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 951 (November 12, 2010).* A state search warrant for a stolen birth certificate was issued and served. Officers opened a folded document that appeared to be a birth certificate, but it was a death certificate that turned out to be evidence of insurance fraud...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on November 19, 2010 (boomark / email).