State v. Brittingham

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnson, J.:

The trial court found Christopher Brittingham guilty on two counts—-possession of drugs and possession of paraphernalia—based upon stipulated facts, after tire district court had denied Brittingham’s attempts to suppress his statements and the drug-related evidence as being products of an unlawful search and seizure. The drugs and paraphernalia were first observed in Brittingham’s apartment by a public housing employee who had made an uninvited entry into the apartment to check for potential damage from a sewer back-up at the facility. The…