{"id":2514,"date":"2008-10-04T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T09:57:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T10:05:12","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2514","title":{"rendered":"OH5: Driver of rental car not on the contract still had standing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driver of a rental car not on the contract, and thus &#8220;unauthorized&#8221; still had standing to challenge an inventory of the car. To hold otherwise would subject a huge number of people to unauthorized searches. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/5\/2008\/2008-ohio-5007.pdf\">State v. Henderson<\/a>, 2008 Ohio 5007, 2008 Ohio App. LEXIS 4219 (5th Dist. September 26, 2008):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[*P29]  In this case, appellant was operating a rented vehicle, and was not an authorized driver of the vehicle. No one present at the stop was an authorized driver of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>[*P30]  Therefore, the issue is whether appellant&#8217;s mere possessionary use, though unlawful use, can bootstrap the issue of standing. Under the very strict interpretation of the facts sub judice, we find appellant had standing to challenge the search. Appellant&#8217;s possession may have been contractually unauthorized, but this was a civil wrong, not a criminal wrong. To permit the issue of standing to be a bar to all of the million of individuals who cannot establish a right to drive another&#8217;s vehicle would be beyond the pale. Appellant&#8217;s possession of the vehicle may be challengeable civilly, but it does not render his expectation of privacy null and void.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Untimely motion to suppress was properly denied, and whether to entertain it late is within the discretion of the trial court. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/9\/2008\/2008-ohio-4937.pdf\">State v. Skorvanek<\/a>, 2008 Ohio 4937, 2008 Ohio App. LEXIS 4155 (9th Dist. September 29, 2008).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2514\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}