mar 26, 2013 - FLORIDA V. JARDINES, 2013

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Joelis Jardines was suspected of growing marijuana, and police officers entered her front yard with drug sniffing dogs to investigate. The dogs caught a wiff of narcotics near the front porch, and officers then obtained a warrant to search her home.

The Supreme Court had to decide if using the drug dogs to sniff at the front door was in violation of Fourth Amendment protections to probable cause.

The Court held that this search was in violation of the Fourth Amendment. They ruled that the front porch was part of curtilage, and that searching on the front porch without a warrant constituted an unlawful search.

(Lippman, Criminal Prodecure, pg. 61)
(https://www.oyez.org/cases/2012/11-564)

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