{ "id": 36089, "name": "Richard GAYLORD v. STATE of Arkansas", "name_abbreviation": "Gaylord v. 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STATE of Arkansas" ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Tom Glaze, Justice.\nThis case was certified to us from the Court of Appeals because the appeal involved the interpretation of the Arkansas Constitution. After this case was submitted for decision, this court has determined that the appellant, Richard Gaylord, did not have standing to raise the constitutional issue. Consequently, we must affirm on that basis.\nThis case commenced as a result of an investigation by the Sebastian County Sheriffs and the Barling Police Departments after receiving reliable and recent information from a DEA Task Force officer that a methamphetamine laboratory was in operation in a trailer located in Barling. The investigating officers went to the trailer to speak to the occupants in order to obtain sufficient evidence to obtain a search warrant. After they had knocked on the door and walls of the trailer for about five minutes, Gaylord came to the door; when he opened it, the officers smelled a strong odor of methamphetamine being cooked. The crux of Gaylord\u2019s argument on appeal is that he was seized without a warrant the moment he opened the door of the trailer, and that the evidence gained when he opened the door was the fruit of an illegal seizure and intrusion. Fie asserts that this knock-and-talk procedure violates the Arkansas Constitution, citing this court\u2019s holding in Griffin v. State, 347 Ark. 788, 67 S.W.3d 582 (2002).\nGaylord first argues that the officers\u2019 knock-and-talk procedure violates the Arkansas Constitution. However, it is readily apparent that Gaylord does not have standing to challenge the search and seizure or knock-and-talk procedures orchestrated by the officers under the Arkansas or the United States Constitutions.\nThe problem with Gaylord\u2019s argument is that the trailer where the knock-and-talk was conducted was not his home. The rights secured by the Fourth Amendment are personal in nature. Rakas v. Illinois, 439 U.S. 128 (1978). Thus, a defendant must have standing before he can challenge a search on Fourth Amendment grounds. Id.; Littlepage v. State, 314 Ark. 361, 863 S.W.2d 276 (1993). Apersonwho is aggrieved by an illegal search and seizure only through introduction of evidence secured by the search of a third person\u2019s premises or property has not had any of his Fourth Amendment rights violated. Alderman v. United States, 394 U.S. 165 (1969); Duck v. State, 346 Ark. 148, 61 S.W.3d 135 (2001).\nIn Mazepink v. State, 336 Ark. 171, 987 S.W.2d 648 (1999), this court stated that, under the Fourth Amendment, evidence should not be excluded unless the court finds that an unlawful search or seizure violated the defendant\u2019s own constitutional rights; his rights are violated only if the challenged conduct invaded his legitimate expectation of privacy, rather than that of a third party. See also Davasher v. State, 308 Ark. 154, 823 S.W.2d 863 (1992) (citing Rakas, supra). The proponent of a motion to suppress bears the burden of establishing that his Fourth Amendment rights have been viol\u00e1ted. McCoy v. State, 325 Ark. 155, 925 S.W.2d391 (1996).\nWhen Gaylord took the stand at the suppression hearing, he stated not once, but four times, that the trailer being searched was not his home:\n\u2022 \u201cI was at a friend of mine\u2019s house, at a friend\u2019s trailer, George Stone.\u201d\n\u2022 \u201cThen, I had walked outside and . . . they had asked me if they could search and I told them that it wasn\u2019t my house and I said, \u2018I don\u2019t live there, so I can\u2019t let them search, you know, someone else\u2019s house.\u2019 \u201d\n\u2022 Q: So, how long had you been staying there before the officers showed up?\nA: I got there about 1:00 that morning.\n\u2022 Q: Did you have a residence at that time?\nA: Yes, ma\u2019am.\nQ: Why didn\u2019t you just go back to your house, or did you?\nA: That\u2019s where I had went.\nQ: Where would that residence have been?\nA: In Mountainburg.\nIn addition, Detective Doug Mitchell testified that Gaylord told him that he did not live in the trailer. Clearly, the trailer that the officers searched was not Gaylord\u2019s home; rather, it belonged to a third person, George Stone. In Davasher, supra, this court affirmed the trial court\u2019s denial of a motion to suppress, holding that \u201c[t]he mere fact that Davasher frequently stayed at his mother\u2019s home does not give him a reasonable expectation of privacy in the premises. Davasher did not show that he owned, leased, or maintained control over the house.\u201d Davasher, 308 Ark. at 163. Similarly, Gaylord offered no proof that he owned, leased, or maintained any control over the trailer that was searched. Therefore, Gaylord had no standing to bring a constitutional challenge to the search.\nAffirmed.", "type": "majority", "author": "Tom Glaze, Justice." } ], "attorneys": [ "John Joplin, Deputy Public Defender, for appellant.", "Mike Beebe, Att\u2019y Gen., by: Clayton K. Hodges, Ass\u2019t Att\u2019y Gen., for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Richard GAYLORD v. STATE of Arkansas\nCR 02-1370\n127 S.W.3d 507\nSupreme Court of Arkansas\nOpinion delivered October 30, 2003\nJohn Joplin, Deputy Public Defender, for appellant.\nMike Beebe, Att\u2019y Gen., by: Clayton K. Hodges, Ass\u2019t Att\u2019y Gen., for appellee." }, "file_name": "0511-01", "first_page_order": 537, "last_page_order": 540 }