Kyllo v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 2001-06-11

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Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether the use of a thermal-imaging device aimed at a private home from a public street to detect relative amounts of heat within the home constitutes a “search” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. I In 1991 Agent William Elliott of the United States Department of the Interior came to su…

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