People v. DeGuire
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Jaspan, J.), dated October 15, 1981, convicting him of attempted criminal possession of stolen property in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Judgment affirmed.
Money seized after a warrantless search of a paper bag found on the floor of the defendant’s car was properly admitted into evidence as the defendant had no legitimate expectation of privacy in the contents of the paper bag. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of 4th…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- People v. MaldonadoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1980