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· 8/2/1994

United States v. Jamal Deshon Segars

Citations

  • 31 F.3d 655
  • 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 19724
  • 1994 WL 395230

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding \abandonment cannot be the product of unlawful police conduct\
  • “An expectation of privacy is a question of intent, which ‘may be inferred from words spoken, acts done and other objective facts.’ ”
  • ‘“The existence of police pursuit or investigation at the time of abandonment does not of itself render the abandonment involuntary.’ ”
  • standard of review; warrantless seizure of abandoned property does not violate Fourth Amendment because defendant forfeits expectation of privacy in abandoned property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Arnold, Ross, McMillian

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