North Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Warrantless Seizure of Drugs on a Home’s Curtilage

Published for NC Criminal Law on February 16, 2015.

The Fourth Amendment protects the home as well as its curtilage, which is defined as the area immediately surrounding the home and associated with it. Recently, the North Carolina Supreme Court in State v. Grice, 2015 WL 304075 (Jan. 23, 2015), was confronted with a Fourth Amendment issue involving the curtilage. The court held, reversing ... Read more

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