California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Cline, D073995 (Cal. App. 2019):
"It has long been settled . . . that a warrantless search and seizure involving abandoned property is not unlawful, because a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy in such property." (People v. Parson (2008) 44 Cal.4th 332, 345.) " '[T]he intent to abandon is determined by objective factors, not the defendant's subjective intent. " 'Abandonment is primarily a question of intent, and intent may be inferred from words, acts, and other objective facts. [Citations.] Abandonment here is not meant in the strict property-right sense, but rests instead on whether the person so relinquished his interest
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