Title: State v. Wright

State: vermont

Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court

Document:

ENTRY ORDER

                      SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 91-007

                              JUNE TERM, 1991


State of Vermont                  }          APPEALED FROM:
                                  }
                                  }
     v.                           }          District Court of Vermont,
                                  }          Unit No. 1, Windham Circuit
                                  }
Robert Wright                     }
                                  }          DOCKET NO. 523-3-90WmCr


             In the above entitled cause the Clerk will enter:

     The defendant is charged with the unlawful possession of marijuana in
violation of 18 V.S.A. { 4230(a)(2).  He moved to suppress all evidence
seized from his residence and from the apartment of third parties which was
located in his residence.  The trial court granted defendant's motion, and
gave the State permission to appeal its ruling.  The State challenged
defendant's standing to object to the search of the apartment and maintains
on appeal that defendant's proprietary interest as a landlord does not
accord him standing to challenge this search.  The court concluded that
defendant, by virtue of his ownership of the apartment, had a sufficient
proprietary interest to challenge the validity of the search under Chapter
I, Article 11 of the Vermont Constitution, relying upon our holding in State
v. Wood, 148 Vt. 479,