State v. Portrey

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• whether police engage in a search by examining items not “entirely visible” depends, in part, on “social and legal norms of behavior”
• police officers' exposing of \concealed personal effects\—the soles of the defendant's boots left on the front porch—implicates privacy interests
• police officers’ exposing of “concealed personal effects” — the soles of the defendant’s boots left on the front porch — implicates privacy interests
• whether police engage in a search by examining items not “entirely visible” depends, in part, on “social and legal norms of behavior”
• privacy interests invaded when police picked up and examined the soles of boots left in a box on the front porch of the defendant’s apartment
• the scope of the presumptive implied consent does not permit a visitor to pick up boots on the front porch for inspection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).