D.C. Circuit· 1/6/1989

United States v. Daniel Thomas

Citations

864 F.2d 843
275 U.S. App. D.C. 21
1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 59
1989 WL 474

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holding a defendant who left his gym bag on the floor of a public hallway in an apartment building and walked down the stairs surrendered his expectation of privacy
noting that abandoned property analysis for Fourth Amendment purposes requires an inquiry into “the intent of the person who is alleged to have abandoned” the property, inferred from “words spoken, acts done, and other objective facts.”
defendant’s ability to retrieve gym bag left in public hallway depended on fortuity that other persons left it undisturbed
“[I]t is possible for a person to retain a property interest in an item, but nonetheless to relinquish his or her reasonable expectation of privacy in the object.”
defendant’s acts of fleeing with a gym bag into an apartment building upon seeing police, leaving bag on the floor in a public hallway of building and walking away from bag constituted abandonment
“When individuals voluntarily abandon property, they forfeit any expectation of privacy in it that they might have had.” (quoting United States v. Jones, 707 F.2d 1169, 1172 (10th Cir. 1983))

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Judges: Wald, Edwards, Ginsburg

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