Mooney v. State

By the Court, GIBBONS, J.:

Aline Mooney opened the locked bedroom door of Thomas William Mooney, her adult son, while a sheriff's deputy stood nearby. The deputy did not ask Aline to open the door or suggest that he wanted to see inside the bedroom. Once the door was open, the deputy saw firearms and bomb-making materials inside the room.

This case requires us to consider whether Aline's decision to open Mooney's locked bedroom door in the presence of a law enforcement officer was sufficiently connected or related to governmental action to implicate the protections of the Fourth Amendment.…