State of Minnesota v. Leona Rose deLottinville

OPINION

RODENBERG, Judge.

The state appeals after the district court dismissed its complaint against respondent. It argues that the district court erred in ruling that police officers violated respondent’s Fourth Amendment rights when they entered a third-party’s residence to arrest respondent under a valid warrant while she was present as a guest. 1 We reverse and remand.

FACTS

Respondent Leona Rose deLottinville, who maintained her own permanent residence in a nearby town, had been staying with D.R. intermittently for about one week when two officers of the Drug Task Force came to D.R.’s…