Opinion
No. 92-351.
August 4, 1992.
An Appeal from a non-final order from the Circuit Court for Dade County; Fredricka G. Smith, Judge.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Ivy Ginsberg Shanock, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant/cross-appellee.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Michael A. Voigt, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellee/cross-appellant.
Before HUBBART, FERGUSON and COPE, JJ.
The State appeals a non-final order granting defendant Gus Jones' motion to suppress evidence. We conclude that defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the bag containing his personal belongings; that the display of the contents of the bag cannot be deemed purely private action in this instance, see 1 W. LaFave, Search Seizure § 1.8(b) (1987); and that there was no applicable exception to the warrant requirement. We find no merit in the cross-appeal.
Affirmed.