United States v. Holmes

ORDER

TIMOTHY J. CORRIGAN, United States District Judge

When law enforcement officers, without a warrant, enter a homeowner’s fenced property through a partially open gate with a “No Trespassing” sign posted on the fence nearby, and then proceed through an unlocked screen door onto an enclosed front porch and execute a “knock and talk” with the homeowner at the front door to his home, have they violated the Fourth Amendment?

Defendant Michael Holmes is charged in a three-count superseding indictment with possession of firearms by a convicted felon and possession with the intent to distribute…