United States v. Delphine O. Tolbert

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a woman possessed no reasonable expectancy of privacy in her suitcase when she claimed that it was not hers
• holding that Tolbert had abandoned her suitcase when she “insisted that she was traveling without luggage and specifically disclaimed ownership of the bag in issue”
• suspect's disclaimer of ownership of property deemed involuntary when done in response to unconstitutional seizure or arrest
• “an unconstitutional seizure or arrest which prompts a disclaimer of property vitiates that act”
• “Tolbert can hardly assert that she ‘exhibited an actual (subjective) expectation of privacy’ respecting the luggage when she specifically disclaimed ownership thereof”
• a defendant who “specifically disclaimed ownership” of a bag lacked a legitimate expectation of privacy in it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).