From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:54:31 +0800
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: [NOISE] "X-Ray Gun" for imperceptible searches
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On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Lucky Green wrote:

> At 9:27 8/13/96, Peter Trei wrote:
> 
> >I vaguely remember another possibly relevant precedent, where a
> >judge ruled that a warrant was required before a thermal imager
> >could be used to look at a house suspected by the police of
> >being a (pot) grow house.
> 
> Wrong. No warrant was used and the bust was upheld in court.

Correct.  No warrant is required to observe that which is freely collected
after eminating from the residence of another and observed off his
property.

Same concept applies to the "sniff" test and ariel views into greenhouses.

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