PEOPLE v. SHEPHERD

Docket No. C015921.

23 Cal.App.4th 825 (1994)

28 Cal. Rptr.2d 458

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. PATRICIA ANN SHEPHERD, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

March 23, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Verna Landis, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Assitant Attorney General, Edmund D. McMurray and Doris A. Calandra, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

SIMS, Acting P.J.

We hold that a woman has no reasonable expectation of privacy in a purse left in a stolen car. Hence, she has no "standing" to contest a search of the purse by police officers.

Following the denial of her motion to suppress evidence1 (Pen. Code, § 1538.5), defendant entered a negotiated plea of no contest to a charge...

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