Pierson v. State

DUFFY, Justice:

Defendant appeals from a conviction for burglary in the fourth degree.

The critical question, as we view the case, concerns the ruling of the Court below on defendant’s motion to suppress certain evidence; * specifically, the Court ruled that defendant did not have standing to object to the search in which the evidence was seized.

Defendant intermittently lived at a house leased by a female friend; he was neither the owner of the property nor a tenant (in a formal sense). At the time of his arrest he had been so residing for a period approximating one month. During the search,…