State v. Ryea

How courts have described this case

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• holding Fourth Amendment does not absolutely protect curtilage; therefore police officer could conduct investigative stop in residential driveway of person suspected of driving with suspended license
• driveway or walkway within curtilage that serves as entryway to home is only semi-private area
• Fourth Amendment does not absolutely protect the curtilage; therefore police offi cer could conduct an investigative stop in the residential driveway of a person suspected of driving with a suspended license
• driveway, though part of curtilage, “constitutes a semiprivate area” not afforded full constitutional protection
• driveway, though part of curtilage, “constitutes a semiprivate area” not afforded full constitutional protection
• “In order to make a valid investigative stop, the police officer must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which, together with the rational inferences taken therefrom, reasonably warrant the intrusion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).