Rakas v. Illinois

Police stopped a car matching a robbery suspect's description and, after ordering the occupants out, found rifle shells and a sawed-off rifle inside; Rakas (defendant), a passenger who neither owned nor drove the car and did not claim ownership of the seized items, moved to suppress the evidence, and the trial court denied the motion, with the appellate court holding Rakas lacked standing as a mere passenger without a proprietary interest in the vehicle.