State v. Rynhart

T20 I concur with the majority's conclusion that the trial court erred in admitting the evidence under the emergency aid doe-trine. However, we part ways when the majority concludes that Rynhart maintained a reasonable expectation of privacy in the van and its contents when, following a single car accident, she left it, unsecured and parked on property not owned by Rymhart.1 My reasons for dissenting are threefold: (1) The majority, in summarily deciding that Rynbart did not abandon her expectation of privacy, relies on a series of cases that have little or nothing to do with the issue of…