State v. Morgan

Petrich, A.C.J.

Larry and Martha Morgan appeal their convictions of possession of controlled substances.

The primary issues raised by this appeal are: (1) whether addressees of a sealed package transported by a private courier have standing to object to an illegal search of the package; (2) whether reopening and chemical testing of the package's suspected contents by the police was a significant expansion of a prior examination by a private party so as to amount to a separate warrantless search without exigent circumstances proscribed by the Fourth Amendment; and (3) if the package search was…