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Hester v. United States, 265 U.S. 57 (1924), is a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which established the open-fields doctrine. [1] In an opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Court held that "the special protection accorded by the Fourth Amendment to the people in their 'persons, houses, papers and effects', is not extended to the open fields."
The open-fields doctrine (also open-field doctrine or open-fields rule), in the U.S. law of criminal procedure, is the legal doctrine that a "warrantless search of the area outside a property owner's curtilage" does not violate the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. However, "unless there is some other legal basis for the ...
Federal agents are allowed to search private property without a warrant under this Prohibition-era Supreme Court precedent.
Robert C. Hockett is an American lawyer, law professor, and policy advocate.He holds two positions at Cornell University (the Edward Cornell Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and a Professor of Public Affairs), is senior counsel at investment firm Westwood Capital, LLC, [1] and was a Fellow at The Century Foundation think tank.
In international law, the principle is known as the Lotus principle, after a collision of the S.S. Lotus in international waters. The Lotus case of 1926–1927 established the freedom of sovereign states to act as they wished, unless they chose to bind themselves by a voluntary agreement or there was an explicit restriction in international law ...
The doctrine is also regularly used by Transportation Security Administration officers while screening people and property at American airports. [2] For the plain view doctrine to apply for discoveries, the three-prong Horton test requires that: [3] The officer is lawfully present at the place where the evidence can be plainly viewed
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