State v. Martin

This is an appeal by the state from a pretrial order of the district court suppress ing evidence and dismissing the prosecution of defendant on drug possession charges. 1 The decisive issue is whether the police violated defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights in obtaining the evidence in question. Concluding that they did, we affirm the order of the district court.

After making a number of controlled drug purchases through an informer at a mobile home in Winnebago, Minnesota, the. Faribault County, sheriff obtained a warrant authorizing the search of that home, a number of people, and automobiles…