United States v. Otis Tugwell

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• stating that defendant had no privacy interest in abandoned property
• analyzing abandonment under the facts known to the officers at the time of the search
• explaining whether one has abandoned an expectation of privacy “is determined on the basis of the objective facts available to the investigating officers, not on the basis of the owner’s subjective intent ” (emphasis added)
• “A warrantless search of abandoned property does not implicate the Fourth Amendment, for any expectation of privacy in the item searched is forfeited upon its abandonment.”
• “A warrantless search of abandoned property does not implicate the Fourth Amendment, for any expectation of privacy in the item searched is forfeited upon its abandonment”
• “A warrantless search of abandoned property does not implicate the Fourth Amendment, for any expectation of privacy in the item searched is forfeited upon its abandonment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).