News Front

November, 1986

Visual SightingWashington, D.C.--Fourth Amendment protection against warrantless search and seizure does not prevent police from aerial pot spotting, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled by a vote of five to four. In the majority opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote that "in an age where private and commercial flight in the public airways is routine, it is unreasonable for a respondent to expect that his marijuana plants were constitutionally protected from being observed with the naked e...