Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/11/1997

Commonwealth v. Carter

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424 Mass. 409
676 N.E.2d 841
1997 Mass. LEXIS 63

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discussing very limited exception to general requirement that each defendant have an expectation of privacy in the place searched
rejecting defendant's \automatic standing\ argument and noting that \it would be more than inappropriate to permit a person fleeing from the police to rely on art. 14 [of the Massachusetts Constitution] to suppress evidence that he left on some third person's property\
rejecting defendant’s “automatic standing” argument and noting that “it would be more than inappropriate to permit a person fleeing from the police to rely on art. 14 [of the Massachusetts Constitution] to suppress evidence that he left on some third person’s property”
under art. 14, defendant has burden of establishing that search in constitutional sense took place
defendant has the burden of establishing that the government has intruded on his or her reasonable expectation of privacy, thus establishing that a search has taken place
defendant and confederate treated as one for purpose of determining reasonable expectation of privacy, otherwise the person who carried the contraband might go free while confederate would not

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Judges: Wilkins

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