The side wall of a house where the gas meter was was still curtilage. Just because the gas company is invited there doesn\u2019t mean the police are. United States v. Conerd, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 98629 (N.D.Iowa July 28, 2015):<\/p>\n
Moreover, the court finds that the government’s argument concerning the utility meter unconvincing. Even if the meter conveyed an implied license to enter the side-yard,”[t]he scope of a license … is limited not only to a particular area but also to a specific purpose.” Jardines, 133 S.Ct. at 1416. The meter provided license for a utility worker to enter the side-yard and read the meter during business hours, not for a police officer to enter the side-yard and peer through Defendant’s basement window in the middle of the night. For these reasons, the court shall overrule the Government Objection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The side wall of a house where the gas meter was was still curtilage. Just because the gas company is invited there doesn\u2019t mean the police are. United States v. Conerd, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 98629 (N.D.Iowa July 28, 2015): … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curtilage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18266,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265\/revisions\/18266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}