Court Opinion

ID: 9738601
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 19:57:58.041446+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:07.251437
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.
Defendant áppéals from the circdit court’s denial of his petition for the return of an assortment of chattels and approximately $2,000 in cash removed from his bedroom by police officers executing a valid search warrant. Defendant previously won an acquittal by directed verdict ori a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, which arose out of the same search.
The question to be decided in a case of this type is "the superior right of possession as between the seizing authority a.nd the one from whoin the property was seizéd”. People v Rosa, 11 Mich App 157, 161; 160 NW2d 747 (1968), aff'd 382 Mich 163; 169 NW2d 297 (1969). See also, Oakland County v Bice, 386 Mich 143; 191 NW2d 338 (1971);
However, defendant has not claimed that the property in question waS seized from his possession: Nor does he allege that he exercised over the property that dominion and control which is the hallmark of possession. Seé 73 CJS, Property, § 14(a), pp 196-197. He merely claims that the property was found in his room and that he gave no one else permission to put it there. Those *202allegations are insufficient to establish even a prima facie right to possession. The trial court correctly denied defendant’s petition.
Affirmed.