California Court of Appeal

Dismissal of drug, ammunition, and burglary-related charges after suppressing evidence found during a warrantless search of a package defendant mailed using a false name is affirmed over prosecution's claim that defendant's use of a fictitious name forfeited any legitimate expectation of privacy and necessarily constituted an abandonment of the package.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/15/2007
• Published 05/15/2007

Judges

• POLLAK, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edmund G. Brown, Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Rene A. Chacon, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Arthur P. Beever, Deputy Attorney General, for plaintiff and appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark Shenfield under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for defendant and respondent.