State v. Edstrom

LILLEHAUG, Justice (dissenting).

In Florida v. Jardines , the United States Supreme Court held that a narcotics-dog sniff at the door of a single-family residence was a "search" in violation of the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement. 569 U.S. 1, 11-12, 133 S.Ct. 1409, 185 L.Ed.2d 495 (2013). This is so because the area "immediately surrounding and associated with the home-what our cases call the curtilage-[is] part of the home itself for Fourth Amendment purposes." Id. at 6, 133 S.Ct. 1409 (citation omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted).

Today, the court reads out of Jardines the area…