A police officer who observes possible illegal activity from a public vantage point should not be precluded from searching more closely, even on private residential property, a split New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
In an expansion of the plain-view doctrine, the justices ruled 4-3 that there was no basis for suppression of drug evidence discovered in a hole on the porch of a Trenton home after a police officer got a tip that the resident was selling drugs. State v. Johnson, A-50-00.
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