United States Tenth Circuit

Police activity of spotting marijuana growing in defendant's back yard from the vantage of an adjacent pasture, did not amount to an unconstitutional search triggering the protections of the Fourth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2003
• Published 06/26/2003

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before EBEL, BALDOCK, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Donn F. Baker of Baker & Baker, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, for Defendant-Appellant., D. Michael Littlefield, Assistant United States Attorney (Sheldon J. Sperling, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Muskogee, Oklahoma, for Plaintiff-Appellee.