Legal Opinion
Kyllo v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 11, 2001No. 99-8508PublishedCited by 1,535 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
This case presents the question whether the use of a thermal-imaging device aimed at a private home from a public street to detect relative amounts of heat within the home constitutes a “search” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.
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In 1991 Agent William Elliott of the United States Department of the Interior came to suspect that marijuana was being grown in the home belonging to petitioner Danny Kyllo, part of a triplex on Rhododendron Drive in Florence, Oregon. Indoor marijuana growth typically requires high-intensity lamps. In order to determine whether an amount of heat was…
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