State v. Stuart Cleland

¶ 1. Following his conditional guilty plea to drug and child-cruelty charges, defendant appeals the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress, arguing that the affidavit submitted in support of a search warrant of his residence did not provide probable cause for issuance of the warrant. We affirm.

¶ 2. On June 7, 2013, after a nearly month-long investigation regarding a clandestine methamphetamine operation, a detective with the Vermont State Police applied for and obtained a warrant to search the residence and curtilage at a specified address on Windmill Point Road in Alburg, Vermont.…