Question

Officer Alan received m anonymous tip that the Bracketts were selling marijuana at their home on 14 Drury Lne. Alan surveyed the property, hoping to witnees saspicious bchavior that, together with the tip, would fumish probable cause for the issuance of a warrant. On the fourth day of survellance, Alan saw Mr. Brackett place a black, plastic bag outside his house in the back yard, leaning against the porch. Two hours later, he saw a dog enter Brackett's back yard from the street. The dog pawed at the bag and then draggod it out of the back yard and outo a neighbor's property. Seeing the neighbor in her front yand, Alan asked her ifhe could search tho bag that the dog had dragged onto her lawn. She consented to the search, which turned up marijnana paraphemalia among varions items of household trash. Brackett's claim that the search violsted his Fourth Amendment rights will: A Sucooed, because ho bas a privacy interest in his back yard B. Succood, because he did not knowingly expose the oontents of the bag to public view the dog dnagged the bag onto the neighbor's yard D. Fail, becamse the bag contained trash that Brackett meant to discard E. None of the above

Answer 1

C. Fail because the dog dragged the bag onto the neighbour's yard.

The officer did not search his yard but of his neighbour with the consent of the neighbour.