Opinion ID: 2214297
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Heading: Search requirement

Text: ¶ 30 The home is accorded the full range of Fourth Amendment protections, Lewis v. United States, 385 U.S. 206, 211, 87 S.Ct. 424, 17 L.Ed.2d 312 (1966), as the physical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed, State v. Ferguson (Kelly Ferguson), 2009 WI 50, ¶ 17, 317 Wis.2d 586, 767 N.W.2d 187 (internal quotations omitted). It is beyond question, therefore, that an unconsented police entry into a residential unit ... constitutes a search .... Wayne R. LaFave, Search and Seizure § 2.3(b) (4th ed. 2004). Accordingly, the officers' warrantless entry into Pinkard's home and their subsequent entry into his bedroom were searches within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. See State v. Boggess, 115 Wis.2d 443, 449, 340 N.W.2d 516 (1983) (concluding that officers' warrantless entry into the Boggess residence was a search within the meaning of the fourth amendment).