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Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 7/17/2000

State v. Briggs

Citations

  • 756 A.2d 731
  • 2000 R.I. LEXIS 170
  • 2000 WL 995187

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding there is no reasonable expectation of privacy for trash deposited in a communal dumpster
  • applying an interest-weighing approach and determining that Rhode Island law applied to “constitutional validity of the police seizure” that occurred in a different state
  • listing four factors a court may consider in determining whether “[a] person is seized or under arrest”
  • holding defendant had no objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of a trash bag after the defendant placed the bag into the bed of his pickup truck for it to be collected and placed in the communal dumpster of a multi-dwelling tenement
  • holding defendant had no objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of a trash bag after the defendant placed the bag into the bed of his pickup truck for it to be collected and placed in the communal dumpster of a multi-dwelling tenement
  • holding defendant had no objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of a trash bag after the defendant placed the bag into the bed of his pickup truck for it to be collected and placed in the communal dumpster of a multi-dwelling tenement

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Judges: Weisberger, Lederberg, Bourcier, Flanders, Goldberg

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