context: Several other cases have followed the Vaughn court's conclusion that the concept of abandonment is different under the Fourth Amendment than under property law.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.parenthetical: defendant relinquished his expectation of privacy when he placed jacket on coat rack in general working area of state office building
citation_a.sentence: See also United States v. Wider, 951 F.2d 1283 (D.C.Cir.1991) (defendant who placed brown paper bag on steps and walked away from the bag had no reasonable expectation of privacy); United States v. Thomas, 864 F.2d 843 (D.C.Cir.1989) (defendant who left gym bag on the floor of a public hallway in an apartment building and walked down some stairs surrendered his expectation of privacy); United States v. Hershenow, 680 F.2d 847 (1st Cir.1982) (no reasonable expectation of privacy when defendant left a sealed box of incriminating records in a barn in which the defendant had no legal interest or right of access); United States v. Alewelt, 532 F.2d 1165 (7th Cir.) (defendant relinquished his expectation of privacy when he placed jacket on coat rack in general working area of state office building), cert, denied, 429 U.S. 840, 97 S.Ct. 114, 50 L.Ed.2d 109 (1976).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.parenthetical: appellant stooping down and placing metal key case containing cocaine next to fence post and walking away has no Fourth Amendment protection against police recovering object even when the object itself is not evidence of a crime
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., Spriggs v. United States, 618 A.2d 701 (D.C.1992) (appellant stooping down and placing metal key case containing cocaine next to fence post and walking away has no Fourth Amendment protection against police recovering object even when the object itself is not evidence of a crime); Anderson v. State, 133 Ga.App. 45, 209 S.E.2d 665 (1974) (defendant who hides marijuana under a rock seventy-five feet from his fishing equipment is afforded no protection against search and seizure of the marijuana).