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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Brennan finds that the lower court properly convicted defendant of drug trafficking after denying his motion to suppress evidence recovered in a search of his garbage, which found cocaine residue on a pair of gloves and supported a full search of his house. Defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the garbage found in cans on the street awaiting trash pickup. Further, he had no right to confront the state's confidential source whose voice is heard during the controlled buy video. Affirmed.
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