Opinion

State of Florida v. Jeffery D. Williams

  • 184 So. 3d 1205
Court
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Filed
Jan 14, 2016
Status
Published
Author
Wolf
On the bench
Rowe, Wolf, Benton
Cited by
4 cases

The opinion

WOLF, J.,

concurring.

I fully concur in Judge Rowe’s well-reasoned opinion that appellee has failed to establish standing in this case. I write only to emphasize that as a matter of public policy, society should not be willing to recognize a reasonable expectation of privacy in a mailed package unless a person asserting standing can meet one of the three criteria laid out in the majority opinion.

These criteria are broad enough to accommodate all reasonable use of the mail service, including legitimate use of an alias or a pseudonym, without providing undeserved cover to terrorists or criminal enterprises. See U.S. v. Pitts, 322 F.3d 449 , 459-61 (7th Circ.2003) (Evans, J., concurring).

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