The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled Monday that garbage is private, even when it has been put out near the street for collection.
The 4-1 decision runs counter to rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court and high courts in most other states. But the court said New Hampshire's constitution provides a stronger expectation of privacy than the U.S. Constitution.
The decision came in a case in which police searched a man's trash and found wire scrapers coated with marijuana residue.
Read it here from the AP via the San Francisco Chronicle.