that's kentucky v. king, i believe. >> all right. so you are conceding that he had license to walk onto -- or walk to the door and ask questions. >> a police -- there's implied consent for a police officer to go up to the front door, knock on the door and attempt to engage the person in the house in conversation if they open the door. >> so why is that? why is that? if you took a poll of people and said do you want -- do you want police officers who suspect you of possibly engaging in criminal conduct to come to your front door and knock on the door so they can talk to you and attempt to get incriminating information out of you, would most people say, yes, i consent to that? >> in terms of consent? again, it's implied consent by custom. and i think at this point it's customary for people to expect that police officers may come to your front door and knock on your front door to try and talk to you. you don't have to talk to them. >> i guess the bottom line is that are you taking -- it sounds to me like you're saying there's no implied

that's kentucky v. king, i believe. >> all right. so you are conceding that he had license to walk onto -- or walk to the door and ask questions. >> a police -- there's implied consent for a police officer to go up to the front door, knock on the door and attempt to engage the person in the house in conversation if they open the door. >> so why is that? why is that? if you took a poll of people and said do you want -- do you want police officers who suspect you of possibly engaging in criminal conduct to come to your front door and knock on the door so they can talk to you and attempt to get incriminating information out of you, would most people say, yes, i consent to that? >> in terms of consent? again, it's implied consent by custom. and i think at this point it's customary for people to expect that police officers may come to your front door and knock on your front door to try and talk to you. you don't have to talk to them. >> i guess the bottom line is that are you taking -- it sounds to me like you're saying there's no implied