People v. Losada

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, his abandonment of the tin foil package subsequently found to contain a quantity of cocaine was not a spontaneous reaction to any unlawful police conduct, since the police did nothing more than follow and observe the defendant while he walked along a public street. Therefore, since the defendant abandoned the package independent of any unlawful police conduct, he no longer had a reasonable expectation of privacy in it (People v Howard, 50 NY2d 583, cert denied 449 US 1023; People v Jones, 171 AD2d 814), and the hearing court properly denied suppression…