People v. Thompson

WERDEGAR, J., Dissenting.

“[A] man’s house is his castle.” (Miller v. United States (1958) 357 U.S. 301, 307 [2 L.Ed.2d 1332, 78 S.Ct. 1190].) This phrase expresses the view that one’s home is a place of personal privacy and its inhabitants are entitled to freedom from governmental intrusion absent a very good reason. “At the risk of belaboring the obvious, private residences are places in which the individual normally expects privacy free of governmental intrusion not authorized by a warrant, and that expectation is plainly one that society is prepared to recognize as justifiable.” (United…