United States v. Louis J. Cella, Jr., Stephen R. Evans, Theodore Schiffman, Defendants

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• explaining that denying ownership of property when ques- tioned constitutes abandonment of that property
• where hospital employee involved in misappropriating funds agreed to become informant after being arrested on unrelated charges, employee was government actor when he thereafter obtained documents incriminating defendants for authorities
• evidence from source independent of that infected by illegal seizure need not be suppressed
• “[B]y telling [a third party] to destroy the [documents later seized], and failing to ensure that he did so, the defendants abandoned the materials and lost any reasonable expectation of privacy in them.”
• hospital officer 13 who had access to and control of print shop operations did not have any expectation of 14 privacy over documents which were kept at the print shop premises but over which officer 15 “did not show an independent possessory or proprietary interest”
• information obtained prior to allegedly illegal seizure

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