People v. Reid

OPINION OF THE COURT

Herbert Kramer, J.

Does a defendant have a legitimate expectation of privacy in a mail receptacle which is not in his home or place of business so as to allege standing to controvert the lawfulness of a search and seizure?

A Mapp-Dunaway hearing having been held, the court makes the following findings of fact. On January 24, 1989, an undercover officer made a buy of cocaine from two defendants in an apartment building lobby, where neither was a tenant. He then radioed to the backup team that he had made a buy and communicated the description of the defendants and the…