Ebarb v. State

That Sheriff Maddox drove his unit onto and he and some six more officers “more or less surrounded” appellant’s car in a private driveway was largely undisputed. Let us ponder, then, the matter of curtilage.

Since Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347, 88 S.Ct. 507, 19 L.Ed.2d 576 (1967) created an invisible shield against warrantless electronic surveillance of one’s telephonic conversations in a public booth, we are all wont to say, with Mr. Justice Stewart, that “the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places.”1 Yet, like Katz in the telephone booth, where a person is still has some bearing…