20 Feb
2001
20 Feb
'01
8:41 a.m.
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
Is a visible light search needful of a warrant? If so then why is the frequency of the radiation an issue?
The capacity of most humans to see in visible light wavelengths is well-documented, and this capacity forms part of our expectation of what is and is not private. People erect privacy fences *BECAUSE* those fences cannot be seen through in the visible-light spectrum. In so doing, they express an intent for the stuff behind those fences to be private. *sigh.* I suppose it would freak their cookies, and might even prompt a search-warrant, if someone installed steel plates in his walls so that the impulse-radar was baffled. Bear