Court Opinion

ID: 9709044
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 03:38:43.829767+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:45.536429
License: Public Domain

MANDERINO, Justice,
dissenting.
I join in the dissent of Mr. Justice Roberts but would note further that the majority’s analysis seems to be based upon an assumption that it is the property owner’s constitutional rights which we are to protect rather than the accused’s. To say that the accused who left a closed container in a place where he had permission to do so had no expectation of privacy is absurd. Under the majority’s reasoning before one can legitimately expect privacy, they would have to hire an attorney to check deeds and leases before leaving an item in a place when a friend says it’s all right to do so. Such a conclusion necessarily follows from the result reached today by the majority.