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US COURT RULES AGAINST ON
HEAT-SENSOR SEARCHES ON GROW OP's
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WASHINGTON ( AP ) - Police violate the Constitution if they use a heat-sensing
device to
peer inside a home without a search warrant, the Supreme Court ruled
Monday.
An unusual lineup of five justices voted to bolster the Fourth Amendment's
protection against unreasonable searches and threw out an Oregon man's
conviction for growing marijuana.
Monday's ruling reversed a lower court decision that said officers' use of a
heat-sensing device was not a search of Danny Lee Kyllo's home and therefore
they did not need a search warrant.
In an opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia ( news - web sites ), by many
measures the most conservative member of the court, the majority found that the
heat detector allowed police to see things they otherwise could not.
"Where, as here, the government uses a device that is not in general public
use to explore details of the home that would previously have been unknowable
without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a 'search' and is presumptively
unreasonable without a warrant," Scalia wrote.
While the court has previously approved some warrant less searches, this one did
not meet tests the court has previously set, Scalia wrote.
The decision means the information police gathered with the thermal device - -
namely a suspicious pattern of hot spots on the home's exterior walls - cannot
be used against Kyllo.
The court sent the case back to lower courts to determine whether police have
enough other basis to support the search warrant that was eventually served on
Kyllo, and thus whether any of the evidence inside his home can be used against
him.
Justices Clarence Thomas ( news - web sites ), David H. Souter, Ruth Bader
Ginsburg ( news - web sites ) and Stephen Breyer ( news - web sites ) joined the
majority.
Justice John Paul Stevens ( news - web sites ) wrote a dissenting opinion joined
by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor (
news - web sites ) and Anthony M. Kennedy.
At issue was how modern police technology fits into the court's long line of
decisions on what should be considered a search requiring a court warrant.
Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that police must get bus passengers' consent
or a search warrant before squeezing their luggage to see if drugs might be
inside. The court also requires a warrant to put a "bug" in
someone's home or in a telephone booth.
But the justices have said police do not need a warrant to go through someone's
garbage left on the curb, fly over a backyard to see what is on the ground, or
put a beeper on a car to make it easier to follow.
Kyllo was arrested in January 1992 and charged with growing marijuana at his
home in Florence, Ore.
Police had been investigating his neighbor, but they focused on him after they
trained a thermal imaging device on his home and saw signs of high-intensity
lights. Using those images, electricity records and an informant's tip,
police got a warrant and searched Kyllo's home, finding more than 100 marijuana
plants.
Kyllo contended the marijuana plants could not be used as evidence against him
because the police did not have a search warrant when they used the heat-sensing
device. A judge ruled against him, and Kyllo pleaded guilty on condition
he could appeal the search issue.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ( news - web sites ) upheld the use
of the device, saying it should not be considered a search.
During arguments at the Supreme Court in February, Kyllo's lawyer told the
justices that people should feel free to let down their guard at home without
fear of the government unreasonably looking over their shoulder.
The Justice Department ( news - web sites ) contended the heat-sensing device
did not intrude on Kyllo's home but instead passively detected the heat that
escaped from it, and the court's dissenters apparently agreed.
Police gathered only information available on the outside walls, and used
"a fairly primitive" device to do so, Stevens wrote.
Using the Thermovision device "did not invade any constitutionally
protected interest in privacy," Stevens wrote.
The case is Kyllo v. U.S., 99-8508.
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