United States v. Dunn

The Government agents’ intrusions upon Ronald Dunn’s privacy and property violated the Fourth Amendment for *306two reasons. First, the barnyard invaded by the agents lay within the protected curtilage of Dunn’s farmhouse. Second, the agents infringed upon Dunn’s reasonable expectation of privacy in the barn and its contents. Our society is not so exclusively urban that it is unable to perceive or unwilling to preserve the expectation of farmers and ranchers that barns and their contents are protected from (literally) unwarranted government intrusion.

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I briefly recount the relevant facts.

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