[Prokopton]

They're outside her gate. She's inside her gate. That's an older legal term rarely used separately from considerations of eligibility to receive rural carrier delivery, but it does apply. The cops jurisdiction ENDS at the public easement,

Actually the term is curtelage. The constitutional expectation of privacy extends to the curtelage or property immediately surrounding the house. It is differentiated from the concept of "open fields" where a person does not have an expectation of privacy even if they are the owner.

[muawiyah]

Privacy wasn’t actually a problem here ~ what we have is “possession”. It was her yard or it wasn’t. Wonder what that’s going to be worth eh?