California Court of Appeal

Motion to suppress evidence properly denied where defendant could have no reasonable expectation that his activities in the common back yard of an apartment complex would remain private; defendant had no exclusive control of the yard area, in which he hid narcotics.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/16/2002
• Published 04/16/2002

Judges

• HUFFMAN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Denise M. Rudasill, under appointment by the Court of Appeal for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Elizabeth A. Hartwig and David Delgado-Rucci, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.