United States v. Stephen Michael Landry

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• holding that district court’s finding of abandonment was not clearly erroneous where defendant placed paper bag on the ground behind wheel of garbage dumpster and walked to pay phone fifty feet away
• holding that district court's finding of abandonment was not clearly erroneous where defendant placed paper bag on the ground behind wheel of garbage dumpster and walked to pay phone fifty feet away
• holding that district court's finding of abandonment was not clearly erroneous where defendant placed paper bag on the ground behind wheel of garbage dumpster and walked to pay phone fifty feet away
• holding that trial court did not clearly err when it found suspect abandoned a bag the suspect purposefully placed by the wheels of an outdoor trash dumpster before walking fifty feet away from the bag to use a public pay phone
• “[W]hether [defendant] intended to retrieve the bag, leave the bag for another person, or abandon the bag is not relevant to the issue of whether the objective facts available to the officers support a finding that [defendant] abandoned the bag.”

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