STATE v. JOYNER

No. 8570.

669 P.2d 152 (1983)

STATE of Hawaii, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kenneth Roosevelt JOYNER, Jr., Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

September 9, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn Grayson, Deputy Pros. Atty., Honolulu (Arthur E. Ross with him on the briefs), for plaintiff-appellant.

Rai Saint Chu, Honolulu, for defendant-appellee.

Before LUM, C.J., NAKAMURA, PADGETT and HAYASHI, JJ., and HEEN, Associate Judge, assigned by reason of vacancy.


LUM, Chief Justice.

The State appeals from the trial court's pretrial order suppressing evidence discovered in a search and seizure of a brown vinyl bag belonging to defendant. We affirm the judgment below on the grounds that defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the bag, and that the warrantless search thus violated his constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.

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