{"id":21252,"date":"2016-03-13T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T19:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21252"},"modified":"2016-03-13T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T19:32:38","slug":"ca10-no-trespassing-sign-doesnt-deny-implied-license-of-a-police-officer-to-approach-a-house-to-ask-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21252","title":{"rendered":"CA10: \u201cNo trespassing\u201d sign doesn\u2019t deny implied license of a police officer to approach a house to ask questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even a \u201cno trespassing\u201d sign doesn\u2019t deny implied license of a police officer to approach a house to ask questions of the occupant. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca10.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/13\/13-7082.pdf\">United States v. Carloss<\/a>, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 4547 (10th Cir. March 11, 2016):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Defendant-Appellant Ralph Carloss contends that two police officers violated the Fourth Amendment by knocking on his front door, seeking to speak with him. Ordinarily a police officer, like any citizen, has an implied license to approach a home, knock on the front door, and ask to speak with the occupants. Carloss, however, claims that &#8220;No Trespassing&#8221; signs posted around the house and on the front door of his home revoked that implied license. We conclude, to the contrary, that under the circumstances presented here, those &#8220;No Trespassing&#8221; signs would not have conveyed to an objective officer that he could not approach the house and knock on the front door seeking to have a consensual conversation with the occupants. Nor did the officers exceed the implied license to knock on the front door by knocking too long. We also uphold the district court&#8217;s factual finding that Carloss voluntarily consented to the officers entering the house. Therefore, &#8230; we AFFIRM the district court&#8217;s decision to deny Carloss&#8217;s motion to suppress evidence that the officers discovered as a result of their consensual interaction with Carloss, after he responded to their knocking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even a \u201cno trespassing\u201d sign doesn\u2019t deny implied license of a police officer to approach a house to ask questions of the occupant. United States v. Carloss, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 4547 (10th Cir. March 11, 2016):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curtilage","category-knock-and-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21252","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=21252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21253,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21252\/revisions\/21253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}