Kjolhede v. State
The defendant did not have standing to challenge a search of his suitcase
at airport curb-side check-in by a Transportation Security
Administration officer who subsequently found a vial of cocaine in the
bag. The defendant had a possessory interest in his own suitcase, but he
willingly surrendered the bag to the TSA for screening. There were
numerous signs warning that passengers need to be available to unlock
their baggage if they want to travel with locked bags. Any hope that
the defendant had that his baggage would not be checked before being
loaded aboard a passenger aircraft was not reasonable in a post-9/11
world.
