People v. Bonilla
People v. Bonilla
Opinion
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¶ 1 This appeal presents a search and seizure issue involving application of this court's recent opinion in
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People v. Burns
,
¶ 2 BACKGROUND
¶ 3 The facts of this case were stipulated to by the parties. 1 Defendant, Derrick Bonilla, lived in an apartment at Pheasant Ridge Apartment Complex in Moline, Illinois. The East Moline Police Department received a tip that defendant was selling drugs from his apartment. Acting on that tip, on March 19, 2015, officers brought a trained drug-detection dog to defendant's apartment building. The exterior doors to the apartment building were not locked. The three-floor apartment building contained four apartments on each floor. Once inside the building, Moline canine officer Genisio 2 walked his drug-detection dog through the second-floor common area. The dog showed no interest in the second-floor common area and did not alert on any of the apartment thresholds. Officer Genisio then walked his dog through the third-floor common area. The dog showed no interest in units 301, 302, or 303. As the dog came to defendant's apartment, unit 304, however, it moved back and forth in the doorway, sniffed at the bottom of the door, and signaled a positive alert for the presence of narcotics. Officers obtained a search warrant for defendant's apartment based on the drug-detection dog's alert. Officers searched defendant's apartment and found cannabis. Defendant was later arrested and charged with unlawful possession of cannabis with intent to deliver ( 720 ILCS 550/5(c) (West 2014) ).
¶ 4 In June 2015, defendant filed a motion to suppress. A hearing was held on that motion in August 2016. The parties stipulated to the facts, and no additional testimony or evidence was presented. At the conclusion of the hearing, the trial court granted defendant's motion to suppress, stating:
"But I think whether you are doing it as a privacy interest under [ Kyllo v. United States ,533 U.S. 27 ,121 S.Ct. 2038 ,150 L.Ed.2d 94 (2001),] or a curtilage property interest under [ Jardines ,569 U.S. 1 ,133 S.Ct. 1409 ], I think it would just be unfair to say you can't come up on a person who lives in a single family residence and sniff his door but you can go into someone's hallway and sniff their door if they happen to *866 *933 live in an apartment. That's a distinction with an unfair difference. So I'm granting the motion."
¶ 5 After the State's oral motion to reconsider was denied, the State appealed. The State did not file a separate certificate of impairment but did set forth in its notice of appeal that the granting of defendant's motion to suppress had the substantive effect of dismissing the charges.
¶ 6 The appellate court affirmed, holding that the common area just outside the door of an apartment constituted curtilage under
Jardines
and
Burns
.
¶ 7 ANALYSIS
¶ 8 The State appeals from the judgment of the appellate court affirming the trial court's order granting defendant's motion to suppress. On appeal, we give great deference to a trial court's findings of fact when ruling on a motion to suppress.
People v. Cregan
,
¶ 9 Here, the parties stipulated to the facts. The record on appeal does not contain the search warrant and affidavit relied on by the trial court in ruling on defendant's motion to suppress. The State, as the appellant, has the burden of presenting a record sufficient to support its claim of error, and any insufficiencies must be resolved against it.
People v. Hunt
,
¶ 10 The question of law at issue in this appeal is whether the warrantless use of a drug-detection dog at the threshold of an apartment door, located on the third floor of an unlocked apartment building containing four apartments on each floor, violated defendant's fourth amendment
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rights. We review this question of law
de novo
.
People v. Caballes
,
¶ 11 I. Whether Defendant's Fourth Amendment Rights Were Violated
¶ 12 The State argues that use of the drug-detection dog did not violate defendant's fourth amendment rights because the common-area hallway in front of defendant's apartment door did not constitute curtilage. Defendant counters that use of the drug-detection dog at the threshold of his apartment door violated the fourth amendment to the United States Constitution ( U.S. Const., amend. IV ). According to defendant, "a citizen's home is first among equals in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, and the threshold is part of the home as a matter of law."
¶ 13 The fourth amendment to the United States Constitution provides:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." U.S. Const., amend. IV.
¶ 14 The parties disagree whether this court's recent decision in
Burns
and the United States Supreme Court's decision in
Jardines
control. We begin by reviewing the Supreme Court's decision in
Jardines
. In
Jardines
, police received an "unverified tip" that marijuana was being grown in the defendant's home.
Jardines
,
¶ 15 The Supreme Court limited its review "to the question of whether the officers' behavior was a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment."
Jardines
,
"a simple baseline, one that for much of our history formed the exclusive basis for its protections: When 'the Government obtains information by physically intruding' on persons, houses, papers, or effects, 'a "search" within the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment' has 'undoubtedly occurred.' " Jardines ,569 U.S. at 5 ,133 S.Ct. 1409 (quoting United States v. Jones ,565 U.S. 400 , 406 n.3,132 S.Ct. 945 ,181 L.Ed.2d 911 (2012) ).
¶ 16 The Court in
Jardines
recognized that its decision in
Katz v. United States
,
*868 *935 "The officers were gathering information in an area belonging to Jardines and immediately surrounding his house-in the curtilage of the house, which we have held enjoys protection as part of the home itself. And they gathered that information by physically entering and occupying the area to engage in conduct not explicitly or implicitly permitted by the homeowner." Jardines ,569 U.S. at 5-6 ,133 S.Ct. 1409 .
¶ 17 The Supreme Court first considered whether police intruded upon a constitutionally protected area. "The Fourth Amendment does not * * * prevent all investigations conducted on private property * * *."
Jardines
,
"But when it comes to the Fourth Amendment, the home is first among equals. At the Amendment's 'very core' stands 'the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.' " Jardines ,569 U.S. at 6 ,133 S.Ct. 1409 (quoting Silverman v. United States ,365 U.S. 505 , 511,81 S.Ct. 679 ,5 L.Ed.2d 734 (1961) ).
¶ 18 The Court specifically regarded "the area 'immediately surrounding and associated with the home'-what our cases call the curtilage" as " 'part of the home itself for Fourth Amendment purposes.' "
Jardines
,
¶ 19 After determining that police officers intruded upon a constitutionally protected area, the Supreme Court then considered whether the police conduct in entering this constitutionally protected area with a drug-detection dog was "accomplished through an unlicensed physical intrusion."
Jardines
,
¶ 20 "Thus, a police officer not armed with a warrant may approach a home and knock, precisely because that is 'no more than any private citizen might do.' "
Jardines
,
¶ 21 The Court noted that it was unnecessary to decide whether the officers' investigation *869 *936 violated Jardines's reasonable expectation of privacy under Katz . The Court explained:
"The Katz reasonable-expectations test 'has been added to , not substituted for ,' the traditional property-based understanding of the Fourth Amendment, and so is unnecessary to consider when the government gains evidence by physically intruding on constitutionally protected areas." (Emphases in original.) Jardines ,569 U.S. at 11 ,133 S.Ct. 1409 (quoting Jones ,565 U.S. at 409 ,132 S.Ct. 945 ).
Nor did the Court find it necessary to consider whether
Kyllo
,
¶ 22 This court later applied the holding of
Jardines
in the context of an apartment building in
Burns
,
¶ 23 The State argues that this case is distinguishable from Burns because, here, the officers conducted a dog sniff in the unlocked common-area hallway outside of defendant's apartment door and the landing was not part of the defendant's curtilage under the "property-based" analysis announced in Jardines . According to the State, under Burns , an unlocked apartment common area is not curtilage. Defendant counters that under Burns and Jardines , the threshold of defendant's apartment is constitutionally protected curtilage.
¶ 24 Here, if the area at the threshold to the door of defendant's apartment falls within the curtilage of the home, then the officer's act of approaching defendant's apartment door to have the narcotics-detection dog sniff the threshold of the apartment would constitute an unlicensed physical intrusion on a constitutionally protected area. Accordingly, this court must determine whether the threshold of the door to defendant's apartment falls within the curtilage of the home.
¶ 25 The facts of this case are nearly identical to those in
Burns
, other than the unlocked status of the apartment building. Nevertheless, we conclude that this distinction does not create a difference. The common-area hallway immediately outside of defendant's apartment door is curtilage. See
Burns
,
¶ 26 As the appellate court acknowledged in this case, "the fourth amendment does not differentiate as to type of home involved."
¶ 27 We conclude that the threshold of the door to defendant's apartment falls within the curtilage of the home. "Were this court to hold that an apartment uniformly lacks fourth amendment curtilage, we would additionally hold that those who live in apartments have less property-based fourth amendment protection
within
their homes than those who live in detached housing." (Emphasis in original.)
Burns
,
¶ 28 A recent United States Supreme Court decision supports our decision in this case. The Supreme Court recently reiterated its strong tradition of protection from warrantless searches upon a person's home or its curtilage in
Collins v. Virginia
, 584 U.S. ----,
"[T]he Fourth Amendment's protection of curtilage has long been black letter law. '[W]hen it comes to the Fourth amendment, the home is first among equals.' Florida v. Jardines ,569 U.S. 1 , 6 [133 S.Ct. 1409 ,185 L.Ed.2d 495 ] (2013). 'At the amendment's "very core" stands "the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.' "Ibid. (quoting Silverman v. United States ,365 U.S. 505 , 511 [81 S.Ct. 679 ,5 L.Ed.2d 734 ] (1961) ). To give full practical effect to that right, the Court considers curtilage-'the area "immediately surrounding and associated with the home' "-to be " 'part of the home itself for Fourth Amendment purposes.' " Jardines ,569 U.S. at 6 [133 S.Ct. 1409 ] (quoting Oliver v. United States ,466 U.S. 170 , 180 [104 S.Ct. 1735 ,80 L.Ed.2d 214 ] (1984) ). 'The protection afforded the curtilage is essentially a protection of families and personal privacy in an area intimately linked to the home, both physically and psychologically, where privacy expectations are most heightened.' California v. Ciraolo ,476 U.S. 207 , 212-213 [106 S.Ct. 1809 ,90 L.Ed.2d 210 ] (1986).
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¶ 29 When a law enforcement officer physically intrudes on the curtilage to gather evidence, a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment has occurred.
Jardines
,
¶ 30 In
Collins
, an officer walked up a driveway from the road, past the front lawn and the front perimeter of a house, and into a partially enclosed portion of the driveway abutting the house to get to the covered motorcycle he wanted to search. In deciding whether the part of the driveway where the defendant's motorcycle was parked and subsequently searched is curtilage, the Supreme Court indicated that the concept defining curtilage is " ' "easily understood from our daily experience." ' "
Collins
, 584 U.S. at ----,
"Just like the front porch, side garden, or area 'outside the front window,' Jardines ,569 U.S. at 6 [133 S.Ct. 1409 ], the driveway enclosure where [the officer] searched the motorcycle constitutes 'an area adjacent to the home and "to which the activity of the home life extends,' " and so is properly considered curtilage.Id. , at 7 [133 S.Ct. 1409 ] (quoting Oliver ,466 U.S. at 182, n. 12 [104 S.Ct. 1735 ].)" Collins , 584 U.S. at ----,138 S.Ct. at 1671 .
Accordingly, the Supreme Court concluded that by physically intruding on the curtilage of the defendant's home to search the motorcycle, the police invaded the defendant's fourth amendment interest in the item searched and also invaded his fourth amendment interest in the curtilage of his home.
Collins
, 584 U.S. at ----,
¶ 31 The Supreme Court then declined to extend the automobile exception to permit a warrantless intrusion on a home or its curtilage.
Collins
, 584 U.S. at ----,
¶ 32 Applying the relevant legal principles articulated by the Supreme Court in
Jardines
and
Collins
to this case yields the same result. "Just like the front porch, side garden, or area 'outside the front window,' " the threshold of defendant's apartment door constitutes " 'an area adjacent to the home and "to which the activity of home life extends' " and so is properly considered curtilage."
Collins
, 584 U.S. at ----,
¶ 33 II. Whether the Good-Faith Exception to the Exclusionary Rule Applies
¶ 34 Alternatively, the State asserts that, even if the police violated the fourth amendment in this case, the evidence should not be suppressed because the officers acted in good-faith reliance on established precedent. The State acknowledges that this court rejected a similar argument in Burns .
¶ 35 "Generally, courts will not admit evidence obtained in violation of the fourth amendment."
Burns
,
"The fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree doctrine is an outgrowth of the exclusionary rule providing that 'the fourth amendment violation is deemed the "poisonous tree," and any evidence obtained by exploiting that violation is subject to suppression as the "fruit" of that poisonous tree.' " Burns ,2016 IL 118973 , ¶ 47,401 Ill.Dec. 468 ,50 N.E.3d 610 (quoting People v. Henderson ,2013 IL 114040 , ¶ 33,370 Ill.Dec. 804 ,989 N.E.2d 192 ).
"[T]he 'prime purpose' of the exclusionary rule 'is to deter future unlawful police conduct and thereby effectuate the guarantee of the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures.' "
Illinois v. Krull
,
¶ 36 This "good-faith exception" to the exclusionary rule has been codified in section 114-12(b)(1), (b)(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963:
"(1) If a defendant seeks to suppress evidence because of the conduct of a peace officer in obtaining the evidence, the State may urge that the peace officer's conduct was taken in a reasonable and objective good faith belief that the conduct was proper and that the evidence discovered should not be suppressed if otherwise admissible. The court shall not suppress evidence which is otherwise admissible in a criminal proceeding if the court determines that the evidence was seized by a peace officer who acted in good faith.
(2) 'Good faith' means whenever a peace officer obtains evidence:
(i) pursuant to a search or an arrest warrant obtained from a neutral and detached judge, which warrant is free from obvious defects other than non-deliberate errors in preparation and contains no material misrepresentation by any agent of the State, and the officer reasonably believed the warrant to be valid; or *940 *873 (ii) pursuant to a warrantless search incident to an arrest for violation of a statute or local ordinance which is later declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalidated." 725 ILCS 5/114-12(b)(1), (2) (West 2012).
¶ 37 The good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule includes good-faith reliance upon binding appellate precedent that specifically authorized a particular practice but was subsequently overruled.
Davis
,
¶ 38 The State argues that the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule should apply in this case for the same reasons argued by the State in Burns : (1) the officers relied on binding United States Supreme Court precedent holding that dog sniffs are not fourth amendment searches; (2) the officers relied on Illinois precedent holding that residents have no reasonable expectation of privacy in apartment building common areas; and (3) the officers relied on federal precedent holding there was no reasonable expectation of privacy in apartment building common areas. According to the State, it was objectively reasonable for the officers to rely in good faith on "binding appellate precedent that the precise location of the K9 sniff was not constitutionally protected." According to the State, "that the exterior door here was unlocked makes all the difference." We disagree. As we have already stated, whether the entrance to the common area of the defendant's apartment was unlocked, as opposed to being locked, is a distinction without a difference. Supra ¶25.
¶ 39 First, in support of its contrary conclusion, the State cites
United States v. Place
,
¶ 40 As this court explained in
Burns
, "contrary to the State's argument, United States Supreme Court precedent has long provided that the home has heightened expectations of privacy and that at the core of the fourth amendment is 'the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.' "
Burns
,
¶ 41 The State next argues that the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule should apply because the officers relied on
People v. Smith
,
¶ 42 Contrary to the State's assertion,
Smith
did not hold that tenants have no expectation of privacy in common areas of either locked or unlocked apartment buildings. Rather, as we noted in
Burns
, "
Smith
concerned an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy in things overheard by the police while standing in a common area of an unlocked apartment building."
Burns
,
¶ 43 The State also argues that officers could rely in good faith on
People v. Carodine
,
¶ 44 In
Carodine
, a surveillance officer observed a defendant remove a bag from a dryer vent protruding from the outside wall of an apartment building, remove an item from the bag, and hand the item to a person who gave money to the defendant.
Carodine
,
¶ 45 We also agree with defendant that the Illinois case most on point at the time of the warrantless search in this case was the Fourth District Appellate Court opinion
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in
People v. Burns
,
¶ 46 The State also cites a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals case as binding precedent in Illinois absent contrary state authority. See
United States v. Brock
,
¶ 47 There are two problems with the State's reliance on
Brock
. First, critical to
Brock's
holding was that the dog sniff in the case was not a fourth amendment search because police were lawfully present inside the common areas of the residence with the consent of the defendant's roommate.
Brock
,
¶ 48 The State also cites federal cases holding that there was no reasonable expectation of privacy in apartment building common areas.
United States v. Correa
,
¶ 49 For these reasons, we hold that the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule is not applicable.
¶ 51 We hold that the warrantless use of a drug-detection dog at the threshold of defendant's apartment door violated his rights under the fourth amendment to the United States Constitution. U.S. Const., amend. IV. We also conclude that the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule does not apply. We affirm the judgment of the appellate court and affirm the trial court's judgment granting defendant's motion to suppress.
¶ 52 Affirmed.
Justices Garman, Burke, Theis, and Neville concurred in the judgment and opinion.
Chief Justice Karmeier dissented, with opinion.
Justice Thomas dissented, with opinion, joined by Chief Justice Karmeier.
¶ 53 CHIEF JUSTICE KARMEIER, dissenting:
¶ 54 I join in Justice Thomas's dissent-as I did in
People v. Burns
,
¶ 55 First, I do not believe that the majority's analytical overlay of the Supreme Court's decision in
Collins v. Virginia
, 584 U.S. ----,
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¶ 56 In reaching its result in this case, the majority alternately claims that "[t]he common-area hallway immediately outside of defendant's apartment door is curtilage" and "the threshold of defendant's apartment door constitutes " 'an area adjacent to the home and '
to which the activity of home life extends
' " and so is properly considered curtilage.' " (Emphasis added.)
Supra
¶¶25, 32 (quoting
Collins
, 584 U.S. at ----,
"No portion of the third-floor hallway is enclosed. Defendant was not using the area outside his doorway for any private purpose such as for a sitting or reception area for himself or his guests. Nothing other than the thickness of defendant's locked apartment door separated defendant's private area from the publicly-accessible hallway. Defendant did not position any item to cause the general public to detour around the threshold of his locked door. Lastly, and importantly, defendant took no steps to protect the exterior of his apartment door from the view or observations of people lawfully travelling back and forth throughout the unlocked apartment building."2017 IL App (3d) 160457 , ¶ 36,415 Ill.Dec. 183 ,82 N.E.3d 128 (Wright, J., dissenting).
¶ 57 The majority likens the common hallway of this unlocked apartment building to the private porch of Jardines and the private driveway of Collins , both of which were within the perimeter, or close, of the residential property those defendants actually occupied. 4 This defendant had no such interest in the common hallway of the multistory apartment building in which he was one of many tenants. It was not his property. He did not own the hallway, or have an exclusive right of control, nor any semblance of habitation there. Certainly, his family life did not extend there. 5 Would we envision family dinners in the hallway? Gardening? Recreation? Perhaps drinks with friends? Of course not. What aspects of family life are we talking about? Clearly, the hallway is not "an area adjacent to the home * * * to which the activity of home life extends." When we employ the property-based approach of Jardines and Collins -as opposed to a privacy-based analysis-we have to live with the strictures of the former, we have to accept the limitations of the property right at issue.
¶ 58 The hallway is simply a publicly accessible means of ingress or egress for defendant, all the other residents, and anyone else who cares to come or go through the building's unlocked doors. The owner of the building evinced no intent to prohibit anyone from entering. The exterior doors leading into the apartment building's common-area hallways were not locked, and there was no lock, passcard, entry *878 *945 system, or anything whatsoever on the closed exterior doors of the apartment building that would prevent any person off the street from entering into the common-area hallways of the building. Officer Genisio walked through those publicly accessible, common hallways. He was where he had a right to be. He never invaded defendant's living space, nor did he encroach upon property we would recognize as defendant's, owned or leased. In short, he did not violate defendant's "curtilage," the dimensions of which the majority would be hard-pressed to fully define. Is this "threshold-curtilage" a matter of inches in front of defendant's apartment door? Is that "an area adjacent to the home * * * to which the activity of home life extends?" If more, how far does it extend? Do other residents traverse and violate defendant's curtilage when they pass his apartment door while going about their daily activities? Does this "curtilage" include the entirety of the third-floor hallway? Perhaps it encompasses all the hallways of the unlocked apartment building. Who knows?
¶ 59 If "[t]he common-area hallway immediately outside of [a] defendant's apartment door
is
curtilage," (emphasis added) as the majority at one point states, then the officers in
Smith
were clearly in it when they sought to overhear a conversation in that defendant's apartment. However, in that case, this court held "no fourth amendment 'search' can be said to have occurred because defendant did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in his conversation."
6
Smith
,
¶ 60 As I read
Smith
, the fact that the officers were in the common area of an "unlocked" apartment building
mattered
. The
Burns
majority also appeared to think that was a distinction supporting the decision in that case: "Contrary to the State's assertion,
Smith
did not hold that tenants have no expectation of privacy in common areas of
locked
apartment buildings. Rather,
Smith
concerned an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy in things overheard by the police while standing in a common area of an
unlocked
apartment building. Consequently,
Smith
does not support the State's position." (Emphases added.)
Burns
,
¶ 61 This court's decision in
Smith
, considered in conjunction with the principles the Supreme Court espoused in
Illinois v. Caballes
,
"Official conduct that does not 'compromise any legitimate interest in privacy' is not a search subject to the Fourth Amendment. Jacobsen ,466 U.S. at 123 [104 S.Ct. 1652 ]. We have held that any interest in possessing contraband cannot be deemed 'legitimate,' and thus, governmental conduct that only reveals the possession of contraband 'compromises no legitimate privacy interest.'Ibid. This is because the expectation 'that certain facts will not come to the attention of the authorities' is not the same as an interest * * * in 'privacy that society is prepared to consider reasonable.'Id. , at 122,104 S.Ct. 1652 (punctuation omitted). In United States v. Place ,462 U.S. 696 [103 S.Ct. 2637 ,77 L.Ed.2d 110 ] (1983), we treated a canine sniff by a well-trained narcotics-detection dog as ' sui generis ' because it 'discloses only the presence or absence of narcotics, a contraband item.'Id. , at 707 [103 S.Ct. 2637 ] ; [citation]." (Emphasis in original.) Caballes ,543 U.S. at 408-09 ,125 S.Ct. 834 .
While one might argue those statements were intended to apply only to traffic stops, the Court's need to distinguish its decision in
Kyllo v. United States
,
"Critical to that decision was the fact that the device was capable of detecting lawful activity-in that case, intimate details in a home, such as 'at what hour each night the lady of the house takes her daily sauna and bath.'Id. , at 38 [121 S.Ct. 2038 ]. The legitimate expectation that information about perfectly lawful activity will remain private is categorically distinguishable from respondent's hopes or expectations concerning the nondetection of contraband in the trunk of his car. A dog sniff conducted during a concededly lawful traffic stop that reveals no information other than the location of a substance that no individual has any right to possess does not violate the Fourth Amendment." Caballes ,543 U.S. at 409-10 ,125 S.Ct. 834 .
The bottom line is this is not a curtilage case. Smith and Caballes provide the controlling authority.
¶ 62 However, for the sake of argument, let us suppose the officer
did
unwittingly violate this newly devised minicurtilage, wherever it might be. What about the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule? If the officer did not believe the common hallway of an unlocked apartment building qualified as the "curtilage" of a specific apartment, then he would have no reason to believe that the Supreme Court's property-based decision in
Jardines
changed the settled authority of
Smith
and a number of federal decisions, which were based upon reasonable expectations of privacy and held that there
was
no such expectation in the common hallway of an unlocked apartment building. See
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Burns
,
¶ 63 The appellate court's decision in
Burns
(
People v. Burns
,
¶ 64 For the foregoing reasons, I respectfully dissent.
¶ 65 JUSTICE THOMAS, dissenting:
¶ 66 The issue in this case is whether the police conducted an illegal search by using a drug-sniffing dog in the
unlocked
common-area hallway outside of defendant's apartment door. In
People v. Burns
,
¶ 67 CHIEF JUSTICE KARMEIER joins in this dissent.
We note that the supplemental certification of record contains an "Agreed Statement of Facts" indicating "[t]he search warrant and affidavit filed in [this] case * * * is the same search warrant and affidavit that was the subject of the defendant's motion to suppress evidence. It was the same search warrant and affidavit that was viewed by the trial judge in reaching his conclusion with respect to the motion to suppress." Unfortunately, neither the common-law record nor the supplemental record contains a copy of the search warrant and affidavit. Because the trial court's factual findings are not contested by the parties, we have relied on the report of proceedings, the defendant's motion to quash warrant and suppress evidence, and the parties' briefs in setting forth the relevant facts of this case.
The record on appeal does not indicate Officer Genisio's first name.
See
Burns
,
The Supreme Court, in
Jardines
, made clear that it was intrusion
onto
Jardines's property that formed the basis for the Court's decision: "[W]e need not decide whether the officers' investigation of Jardines' home violated his expectation of privacy under
Katz
. One virtue of the Fourth Amendment's property-rights baseline is that it keeps easy cases easy. That the officers learned what they learned only by physically intruding on Jardines' property to gather evidence is enough to establish that a search occurred."
Jardines
,
In short, there was no " 'physical intrusion of a constitutionally protected area' " as required by the Supreme Court in
Jardines
. See
Jardines
,
The court cited, with implied approval, this court's decision in
People v. Wright
,
Noticeably absent in the majority's opinion here is the extended discussion of
LeFlore
that the majority saw fit to include in
Burns
. See
Burns
,
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