People v. Daggs

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant abandoned cell phone which he left behind in a store after fleeing when being confronted for attempting to steal merchandise and therefore police did not unconstitutionally search phone to determine the owner of the phone
• “[W]hen the owner fails to take normal precautions after leaving property unattended in a public place, the owner has relinquished a reasonable expectation of privacy . . . .”
• “[T]he intent to abandon is determined by objective factors, not the defendant’s subjective intent. Abandonment is primarily a question of intent, and intent may be inferred from words, acts, and other objective facts.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• phone dropped during robbery of drug store

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).