State v. Travison B.

OPINION

WECHSLER, Judge.

{1} In this appeal in a delinquency proceeding, we determine that even if we assume that the officers violated the rights of Child and his family under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article II, Section 10 of the New Mexico Constitution by entering their apartment without a warrant, the district court properly denied Child’s motion to suppress evidence of Child’s actions attacking the officers within the apartment. We therefore affirm.

BACKGROUND

{2} Police Officer Ferrin Smith and Detective Jason Smerglia of the Farmington Police Department…