Tracht v. Commissioner of Public Safety

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that the officer’s entry was analogous to entry onto a porch under the Fourth Amendment
• finding officers’ entry through open garage door to conduct knock-and-talk at service door no different than entering porch to knock on door to house and thus not in violation of Fourth Amendment
• “Police with legitimate business may enter the areas of the curtilage which are impliedly open to use by the public.” (quotation and alteration omitted)
• entry into open garage for the purpose of knocking on the exposed service door was not a Fourth Amendment search
• entiy into open garage for the purpose of knocking on the exposed service door was not a Fourth Amendment search
• “Police with legitimate business may enter the areas of curtilage which are impliedly open to use by the public.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).