People v. Dingle
This text of 254 A.D.2d 131 (People v. Dingle) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alvin Schlesinger, J.), rendered May 1, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 1 to 3 years, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. Defendant lacked standing to suppress a pouch from which vials of crack cocaine were recovered, because defendant did not establish that he retained any legitimate expectation of privacy in the pouch after he threw it, upon the legitimate approach of the police, into a van parked nearby (People v RamirezPortoreal, 88 NY2d 99). Although defendant bears the burden of proof with respect to standing, he never asserted any connection with the van and, once he threw the pouch into it, he could not reasonably expect that others would not have access to the pouch (People v DeLaCruz, 242 AD2d 410; People v Laws, 208 AD2d 317). Concur — Lerner, P. J., Sullivan, Rosenberger, Ellerin and Rubin, JJ.
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254 A.D.2d 131, 679 N.Y.S.2d 19, 1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11034, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/people-v-dingle-nyappdiv-1998.