United States v. Eddie Raymond Ruiz

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• holding that the consent to search given by a third party was valid where the defendant owner had abandoned his ownership interest
• disclaimer of ownership of luggage sufficient to support district court’s conclusion that luggage was abandoned
• officers may reasonably believe that a suspect’s disclaimer of an interest in luggage is an abandonment of his privacy interest, even if they have other evidence of possession
• disclaiming ownership of luggage was evidence of abandonment
• disclaiming ownership of luggage was evidence of abandonment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).