Legal Opinion
People v. Mayoff
California Supreme Court
Decided December 31, 1986No. Crim. 23608PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
GRODIN, J.
We recently concluded that, unless a warrant is obtained, our state Constitution forbids intensive aerial inspection of an individual enclosed backyard based on prior suspicions that marijuana cultivation will be found within the enclosure. (People v. Cook (1985) 41 Cal.3d 373 [221 Cal.Rptr. 499, 710 P.2d 299].)1 In this case, we confront a different type of police activity. Under a program designed to curb widespread commercial marijuana farming in rural and semirural areas, law enforcement officials took to the air, in fixed-wing aircraft, to identify the locations of…
2Cases cited49 opinions
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- Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San FranciscoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- United States v. Brignoni-PonceSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- New Jersey v. T. L. O.Supreme Court of the United States · 1985
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3Cited by11 opinions
- People v. McKayCalifornia Supreme Court · 2002
- People v. MateljanCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2005
- People v. FreemanCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1990
- People v. RobertsCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1987
- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 2009
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