STATE v. COHEN

No. 9318SC1082.

450 S.E.2d 503 (1994)

STATE of North Carolina v. Seth Robert COHEN.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 6, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Michael F. Easley by Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen. Thomas D. Zweigart, Raleigh, for the State.

Asst. Public Defenders Walter L. Jones and Richard S. Boulden, Eighteenth Judicial Dist., Greensboro, for defendant-appellant.


THOMPSON, Judge.

The issue presented by this appeal is whether or not the defendant has standing to object to the search and seizure of a briefcase and its contents when the defendant never asserted an ownership or possessory interest in the briefcase. We hold that the defendant does not have standing to object to the search of the briefcase.

The defendant was indicted on four separate counts of common law robbery. At trial, evidence for the State tended to...

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