PEOPLE v. COOK

Docket No. Crim. 23651.

41 Cal.3d 373 (1985)

710 P.2d 299

221 Cal. Rptr. 499

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LARRY LYNN COOK, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 31, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

George S. Cooney and Patrick J. Briggs for Defendant and Appellant.

Frank Bacon as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jay M. Bloom, Steven H. Zeigen and Pat Zaharopoulos, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

John D. Darlington, District Attorney (Nevada), Christopher N. Heard and Terry L. White as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GRODIN, J.

This case requires us to examine the contours of California citizens' entitlement to be free from the intrusive gaze of the state, in an era when the instruments of surveillance at the disposal of the police are far more sophisticated than our nation's founders would have dared contemplate. Here, after law enforcement officials were frustrated in their effort to confirm from any land-based public vantage point an...

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