State v. Illingworth

In these consolidated criminal cases, both defendants appeal convictions for manufacture of a controlled substance. ORS 475.992. There are four assignments of error. Although our discussion is limited to the single question whether marijuana plants found and seized by sheriffs deputies should have been suppressed as being the fruit of an illegal entry onto defendants’ property, we affirm the trial court in all respects.

Defendants Steven and Roberta Illingworth are husband and wife and at the time in question lived on ten acres of land in rural Josephine County. On May 31, 1981, one of…