In the Interest of L.S.R., J.A.L., and P.L., Children v. the State of Texas

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• holding that a warrantless entry made during a months-long surveillance operation violated the Fourth Amendment
• holding that officers who had been watching the defendant for two months committed an unconstitutional search when they climbed through a window and peered through a transom to see if he was running an illegal gambling operation
• holding that officers’ actions of climbing through a window of a boarding house, standing on a chair in the hallway, and peering through the transom above the defendant’s door constituted an unlawful search
• reasoning that trespass by police officers into rooming house violated privacy of home, requiring suppression of seized evidence
• reasoning that trespass by police officers into rooming house violated privacy of home, requiring suppression of seized evidence
• holding police violated the Fourth Amendment in searching the room defendant rented in a residence without a search warrant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).