People v. Castro

OPINION OF THE COURT

Kristin Booth Glen, J.

This case presents the important but unresolved issue of the right of passengers in a cab or livery to challenge, on Fourth Amendment grounds, both a police stop of the vehicle and the subsequent search of the back seat where they were sitting. For the reasons discussed below I hold that passengers who have hired a vehicle have standing to raise the reasonableness of police action in stopping the vehicle and that they have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the floor of the area in which they are seated so as to give them standing to challenge a…