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US Supreme Court requires a warrant for thermal surveillance of a home

In Kyllo v. United States, involving indoor cannabis cultivation, the Supreme Court held that using technology not in general public use to obtain otherwise inaccessible details of a home's interior was a search, presumptively unreasonable without a warrant. It sent the case back to determine whether the later search warrant had independent support or the evidence could otherwise be admitted.[1]

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References

  1. US Supreme Court — Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001), opinion reproduced by Cornell LIIOpinion of the Court, parts I and III, holding and remandarchived

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