Opinion ID: 1542598
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Property Taken at the Hospital

Text: [¶ 13] Dumas asserts that an unconstitutional seizure occurred when a police officer accepted the items brought from his room by the technician. The motion court rejected that argument after finding that the technician acted of her own volition and was not a state actor. See State v. LeGassey, 456 A.2d 366, 367 (Me.1983) (The fourth amendment is a limitation on government action only....). Because the State did not seek to admit any of the contested physical evidence at trial, the point is moot and we will not consider it on appeal. Sorayl v. Sordyl, 1997 ME 87, ¶ 4, 692 A.2d 1386, 1387 (We review only those cases that present a justiciable controversy. If issues become moot, an appeal is nonjusticiable. (citation omitted)).