constitutionally protected area
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Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
Inherent Fourth Amendment rights are not inevitably measurable in terms of ancient niceties of tort or real property law. Decision does not turn upon the technicality of a trespass upon a party wall as a matter of local law. It is based upon the reality of an actual intrusion into a constitutionally protected area.
Defined by the Supreme Court in - Silverman v. United States, 365 U.S. 505 (1961).