Kyllo+V.+United+States+(2000)

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**Case:**
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 * ====Federal authorities were investigating a man that went by the name of Danny Lee Kyllo.====
 * ====He was under investigation for cultivating marijuana.====
 * ====During the cultivation process, marijuana is best grown when under high intensity voltage light bulbs. When so much power is accumulated in an area of a house, thermal imaging devices can point out those areas by discovering hot sports produced by the large amounts of power.====
 * ====After discovering those hot spots, federal authorities used that evidence to get a search warrant allowing them to search for the cultivated plants.====
 * ====The federal authorities seized into the house and arrested Kyllo for the cultivation of marijuana and the attempt to distribute. Kyllo and his legal council both agreed that the search was a violation of his fourth amendment right.====
 * ====Kyllo stated that just because he consumed a lot of power in his house doesn't mean that he was cultivating marijuana. Anyone can use a lot of power so that does not mean that everyone grows m arijuana. ====
 * ====The supreme court decided that the search was unconstitutional because all the federal authorities had to go off of was the hot spots shown by the thermal imaging devices. Using a lot of power doesn't give everyone to be title those power using people as marijuana cultivators and drug distributors.====