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102638P.pdf   08/08/2011  United States  v.  Michael Wells
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-2638
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - Cape Girardeau   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Melloy, Circuit Judge, and
   Miller, District Judge]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. The district court did not err in finding
   defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy in an unpaved driveway
   area extending past the rear of his home as the area was part of his home's
   curtilage; as a result, when the officers observed a lighted outbuilding
   from the driveway, they were standing in an area in which defendant had a
   reasonable expectation of privacy; officers' entry onto the curtilage was
   not constitutionally reasonable; entry onto the area did not fall within the
   "knock-and-talk" rule; as a result, the district court did not err in
   suppressing the search.