People v. Ocampo

OPINION OF THE COURT

Carol Berkman, J.

There must be a nexus between the violation of a defendant’s constitutional rights and the seizure of evidence before he has standing to move to suppress it. The mere fact that each defendant in five cases at bar was riding in a vehicle *218which was stopped does not alone create that nexus, even assuming that the stops were without basis and accordingly violated their personal constitutional rights. In fact, in moving to suppress, each defendant herein has carefully refrained from connecting his presence to the finding of the contraband.

Thus, this court…