Aerial snooping by police toting zoom lenses has been shot down by an Alaska state court. A court ruling issued Friday says that before law enforcement can take to the air with zoom lenses to see what’s in a yard hidden from a ground view, police need to get a warrant, according to the Associated Press. The Alaska Supreme Court ruling was the end of a case that started in 2012, when Alaska state troopers took to the air to see what they could see after being told that John William McKelvey III was growing marijuana on his land near Fairbanks. The yard was not visible from the ground. Based on …