Legal Opinion
State v. Groff
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided August 25, 1982No. 66397PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
UHLENHOPP, Justice.
This appeal involves challenges to the validity of a search warrant.
Defendants Floyd Clifford Groff and Cindy Rae Groff are married and live on a farmstead in Iowa County, Iowa. Their home is approximately one and three-quarters miles from a field in Washington County owned by Floyd’s father, Warren Groff. In 1979 Floyd planted corn in that field.
In October 1979, a local farmer visited the field and discovered what appeared to be a cultivated marijuana plot containing three to four rows of plants growing on an edge of the field between the corn and timberland. The farmer…
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