State v. Breuer

McGIVERIN, Chief Justice.

The controlling issue in this ease is whether the district court erred in overruling defendant’s motion to suppress from evidence at trial marijuana found in his apartment by a deputy sheriff who had gone to defendant’s apartment to question defendant regarding an unrelated matter. Specifically, the issue concerns whether a person’s right to be free from unreasonable searches under the United States and Iowa constitutions precludes, under the record in this case, a police officer from opening an unlocked downstairs apartment building door and entering the building…