Bonner, Jr. v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that Terry's reasonable suspicion standard could not justify a constructive search that was conducted as police officers peered through the doorway into the defendant's home
• stating that “Hicks apparently adopted a bright-line rule requiring probable cause to support a search of a dwelling”
• illustrating that the Supreme Court has upheld searches, conducted on less than probable cause, only in public places which, by their nature, give rise to a lower expectation of privacy
• illustrating that the Supreme Court has upheld searches, conducted on less than probable cause, only in public places which, by their nature, give rise to a lower expectation of privacy
• finding evidence gained through a nonconsensual entry into a dwelling would have to be suppressed unless the entry was otherwise constitutionally sanitized
• having determined that visual access was a “search,” because the access was not gained by consent, the court considered whether probable cause for the search otherwise existed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).