D.P.R.: REP in workplace isn’t automatic; here there wasn’t any in a postal sorting area

A reasonable expectation of privacy in one’s workspace is not automatic. Here it was a postal worker in a sorting area, and that wasn’t private. United States v. Alarcón-Rodríguez, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 175916 (D.P.R. Sep. 25, 2024).*

“Because a car’s interior is ‘subject to Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable intrusions by the police,’ New York v. Class, 475 U.S. 106, 114-115, 106 S. Ct. 960, 89 L. Ed. 2d 81 (1986), ‘a justification for that action had to be offered.’” Defendant’s “altercation” where the officer unjustifiably yanked open his car door and they “struggled” over it was not probable cause for defendant’s arrest here. Commonwealth v. Tyson, 2024 Mass. App. LEXIS 130 (Sep. 30, 2024).*

Defendant was stopped in 2011 on an “investigative alert” and there was probable cause. The constitutionality of those stops wasn’t decided until 2019, so the police acted in good faith at the time. People v. Mathis, 2024 IL App (1st) 211102 (Sep. 30, 2024).*

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