Open-fields doctrine
American legal rule allowing warrantless searches of private property not near houses / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Open-field (disambiguation).
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 search," such a search "must exclude the home and any adjoining land (such as a yard) that is within an enclosure or otherwise protected from public scrutiny."[1]