State v. Matthews

SANDSTROM, Justice.

[¶ 1] Anthony Charles Matthews appealed from a criminal judgment entered following conditional pleas of guilty for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia. We affirm the judgment of the trial court, concluding that under the *30circumstances, law enforcement officers were able to enter Matthews’ residence and conduct a warrantless search for information under the emergency doctrine.

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[¶ 2] In the early morning hours of October 24, 2001, a dispatcher at the Fargo Police Department received a 911 emergency call from a woman…