Whitley v. Robertson County

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• concluding that a narcotics-dog sniff on a separate, external, front balcony that served as the only entrance to an apartment occurred on curtilage
• holding that a warrantless drug sniff at the front-door threshold of an apartment constitutes an unlawful invasion of the curtilage of the home in violation of the Fourth Amendment
• noting that “courts have determined that the ‘common areas’ of an apartment complex are outside the curtilage”
• noting that Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless searches extend to “other dwelling place, including apartment”
• concluding curtilage extended to front-door D-6 threshold in semi-private landing of apartment home
• applying Jardines and concluding bringing a drug-dog up to a front door for the purpose of conducting a canine-narcotics sniff was a search in violation of the Fourth Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).