United States v. Carless Jones and Eugene Harvey

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that ‘[w]hen individuals voluntarily abandon property, they forfeit any expectation of privacy in it that they might have had
• concluding defendant abandoned his satchel when he left it outside the building he was hiding in and denied ownership of it
• police found brown satchel outside building where defendant had abandoned it and searched the bag
• whether abandonment has occurred is a question of intent, which can be inferred from words, acts or other objective facts
• \The test for abandonment is whether an individual has retained any reasonable expectation of privacy in the object. This determination is to be made by objective standards.\ (citation omitted)
• abandonment when ability to recover property depended upon fate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).