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051690P.pdf 02/10/2006 United States v. Jimmy Albern Boyster
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 05-1690
Eastern District of Arkansas
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with McMillian and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law. Under Arkansas law, the lack of
proclamation calling up the National Guard did not make the Guard's
involvement in counterdrug surveillance unlawful, particularly when the
governor has specifically certified that the counterdrug plan complies
with state law; aerial surveillance had not occurred within the curtilage
of defendant's property and was not unlawful; in any event, so long as the
aerial surveillance took place in an area where the public could lawfully
fly and at an altitude generally used by the public, defendant had no
reasonable expectation of privacy, and the overflight did not violate the
Fourth Amendment.