People v. Scott

Appeal from a judgment *1024of the County Court of Chenango County (Dowd, J.), rendered October 30, 1989, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of criminal possession of marihuana in the first degree.

The primary question presented on this appeal is whether defendant’s act of posting no trespassing signs about every 20 to 30 feet around the perimeter of his property, which consisted of 165 acres of rural, hilly, undeveloped, uncultivated fields and woodlands except for defendant’s cultivation of marihuana thereon, established an expectation of privacy cognizable under the right…