W. H. Wattenburg and William P. Owens v. United States

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• post-Katz courts have ignored curtilage doctrine, or found it archaic and unnecessary
• open yard 20-30 feet from lodge protected by Fourth Amendment
• open yard 20-30 feet from lodge protected by Fourth Amendment
• post-ATafz courts have ignored curtilage doctrine, or found it archaic and unnecessary
• Fourth Amendment violated when officers entered property to search stockpile of Christmas trees located within residence‟s curtilage for illegally cut trees; because officers had to move legally cut trees to see contraband, suspect‟s reasonable expectation of privacy violated
• trespass and search of area within curtilage of house

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).