Legal Opinion
People v. Camacho
California Supreme Court
Decided July 27, 2000No. S075720PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WERDEGAR, J.
Police in this case looked through a window and observed defendant packaging cocaine in his home. The officers made this *828observation while standing in defendant’s side yard, a place they had no legal right to be. The Court of Appeal held the police violated defendant’s right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and, accordingly, concluded the trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion to suppress the evidence against him. We affirm.
Facts
On June 26, 1997, police received an anonymous complaint of a…
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