State v. Mendez

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Larson, J.:

In this appeal from the denial of a motion to suppress, we are asked to extend the emergency doctrine to include public service actions by law enforcement officers leading to the discovery of marijuana after an uninvited entry into a residence while taking a 16-year-old boy home in early morning hours after his vehicle had become disabled on Interstate 35 in Johnson County, Kansas.

The facts are not in dispute but are critical to our decision and will be set forth in detail as developed by several different hearings in the case.

It was…