The U.S. Supreme Court has identified four factors to help a police officer distinguish curtilage from open fields. Those four factors are:

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The four factors identified by the U.S. Supreme Court to help distinguish curtilage from open fields are: the proximity of the area claimed to be curtilage to the home, whether the area is included within an enclosure surrounding the home, the nature of the uses to which the area is put, and the steps taken by the resident to protect the area from observation by people passing by. These factors can be summarized as distance, enclosure, function, and protection, which align with choice B.

The US Supreme Court Has Identified Four Factors to Help a a Police