Court Opinion

ID: 9527148
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:27:56.32319+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:25:35.974037
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ALMON, Judge
(dissenting).
The Fourth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution protects people against unreasonable searches and seizures of their “persons, houses, papers, and effects.”
Here, there was no search of the person until after appellant threw the package of marijuana to the ground and the officer ascertained its contents. I view this as an abandonment. The subsequent search of the person revealed nothing incriminating.
Neither his house nor his property was searched and there was no acquisition of his papers or effects except for the package of marijuana which he had previously abandoned. I see no violations of appellant’s Fourth Amendment rights and, therefore, respectfully dissent.