case law dig crime

Katz v US 1967

• Facts of case - physical intrusion phone booth

• ruling and impact - USSC - 4th protects people not places 

• society must be willing to recognize that expectation of privacy as reasonable 

Florida v Riley 1989

• Facts of case - greenhouse 

• ruling and impact - flying helicopter is daily occurrence 

• reasonable expectation of privacy is not static - it must adapt to technology beyond intentions of framers of constitution 

• Although searchers usually implicate 4th amendment - there is precedent for 1st amendment implications as well 

Ontario v Quonset 2010

• Facts of case - work device 

• 4th - ruling and impact - rights belong to the owner 

• 1st - finally some public property is not a forum at all and thus is not subjected to this forum analysis 

US v Jones 2012

• Facts of case - GPS one day late and wrong jurisdiction 

• ruling and impact - life sentence overturned 

Riley v California 2014

• Facts of case - cell phone incident to arrest 

• ruling and impact - no, get a warrant 

US v Robert’s 2001

• Facts of case - tip, fight to Paris, diskettes

• reasonable suspicion  is low level necessary 

Kyllo v US 2001

Thermal imaging

• allows technology not contemplated by framers of constitution and not in common use to define expectation of privacy

Nix v Williams

Inevitable discovery doctrine

Search party for dead body, he told them where body was