Reakirt v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant who disclaimed ownership of a briefcase in his truck did not abandon it because he “had a privacy interest in the area searched,” the briefcase “was locked, and he objected to its seizure”
• holding the defendant did not abandon a briefcase when he kept it locked and closed in his truck
• recognizing Simpson'^ plurality opinion as good law
• defining the question of voluntary abandonment as one of “a combination of act and intent” with the ultimate goal of determining “ ‘whether the defendant in leaving the property has relinquished her reasonable expectation of privacy’ ” (internal quotation marks omitted
• searching voluntarily abandoned property is an exception to the warrant requirement
• defining the question of voluntary abandonment as one of \a combination of act and intent\ with the ultimate goal of determining \'whether the defendant in leaving the property has relinquished her reasonable expectation of privacy'\ (internal quotation marks omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).