State v. Davis

In this criminal case, defendant appeals her conviction for animal neglect in the second degree, ORS 167.325, assigning error to the trial court’s denial of her motion to suppress evidence obtained as the result of a warrantless entry into her house by the investigating officer. The state concedes that the evidence should have been suppressed but argues that admitting it was harmless error. We agree and affirm.

Klages, an Oregon State Police officer, was ordering coffee in a shop in Forest Grove when she was approached by a woman named Arnett who, along with her husband, had been house hunting…