Georgia law allows for police to search for “tangible evidence,” and heat patterns inside a home or garage do not fit that definition, the court said in a unanimous opinion.
“Giving the word ‘tangible’ full effect, it appears that the General Assembly intended ‘tangible evidence’ to mean evidence that is essentially an object with material form that could be touched by a person,” Justice Harris Hines wrote. “That meaning does not include the remotely sensed heat at issue here.”
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