Legal Opinion
Minnesota v. Carter
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 23, 1999No. 97-1147PublishedCited by 1,052 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
Respondents and the lessee of an apartment were sitting in one of its rooms, bagging cocaine. While so engaged they were observed by a police officer, who looked through a drawn window blind. The Supreme Court of Minnesota held that the officer’s viewing was a search that violated respondents’ Fourth Amendment rights. We hold that no such violation occurred.
James Thielen, a police officer in the Twin Cities’ suburb of Eagan, Minnesota, went to an apartment building to investigate a tip from a confidential informant. The informant said that he had walked by the window of a ground-floor…
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