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We are unwilling to send police and judges into a new thicket of 4th Amendment law, to seek a creature of uncertain description that is neither a plain-view inspection nor yet a full-blown search.
Source: Majority opinion in 6-3 ruling that refused to expand police powers to search or seize evidence that they suspect may be stolen, 3 Mar 87
-- Antonin Scalia, (Mar 11 1936-2016), US jurist; He was associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1986, well-known for his strong legal conservatism.