State v. Courcy

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “because it was immediately apparent to the experienced officers the bindle contained contraband, [the defendant] did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy which would prevent opening the bindle or field testing it”
• affirming denial of defendant's motion to suppress and recognizing officer had probable cause to seize a paper bindle containing cocaine when bindle was in plain view, officer testified he immediately recognized container as cocaine bindle and defendant attempted to hide bindle
• officers were justified in opening folded paper that they recognized as a cocaine bindle; because of appearance of container itself, contents were in effect in open view
• cocaine in “a blue and black precisely folded paper ‘bindle’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).