State v. Zackery

How courts have described this case

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

• holding where officer has his access blocked to front door of a residence, knocking on side door is a “valid intrusion”
• a police officer makes a “valid intrusion” upon property when “such an officer is merely taking the same route as would any guest or other caller.”
• police officer who observes contraband in plain view is entitled to seize it so long as he has not violated defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights in establishing his vantage point
• “a police officer who is unable to approach the front door of a residence and tries to knock upon a side door only makes a ‘valid intrusion’ upon the property”
• \[A] police officer who is unable to approach the front door of a residence and tries to knock upon a side door only makes a 'valid intrusion' upon the property\
• “[A] police officer who is unable to approach the front door of a residence and tries to knock upon a side door only makes a ‘valid intrusion’ upon the property”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).