Minnesota V. Carter

In Minnesota v. Carter, 525 U.S. 83 (1998), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment did not protect against the viewing by an outside police officer, through a drawn window blind, of the defendants' bagging cocaine in an apartment.

The Supreme Court of Minnesota had held that the officer's viewing was a search that violated respondents' Fourth Amendment rights. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, writing for a 6-3 Court, found that no violation had occurred and reversed the decision of the state court.