What is the scope of the Fourth Amendment protection in the context of a search warrant?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Von Villas, 11 Cal.App.4th 175, 15 Cal.Rptr.2d 112 (Cal. App. 1992):
6 Katz directed the focus of Fourth Amendment protection to "... people, not places." (Katz v. United States, supra, 389 U.S. at p. 351, 88 S.Ct. at p. 511.)
7 Property Item No. 4 was defined in the warrant as follows:
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