Lorenzana v. Superior Court

How courts have described this case

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

• holding plain view did not apply when officer walked within six inches of house and peered through a two-inch gap between drawn blinds and windowsill
• finding a search where police leave the driveway and peek through a two-inch gap in a drawn window shade
• petitioner exhibited reasonable expectation of privacy by drawing window shade even with two-inch gap between blinds and sill
• \observations of things in plain sight made from a place where a police officer has a right to be do not amount to a search in the constitutional sense\
• officers violated Fourth Amendment by peering through drawn curtains
• officers violated Fourth Amendment by peering through drawn curtains

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).