Land v. State

Johnson, Presiding Judge.

The state filed a petition to condemn $4,548 and a pistol that law enforcement officers had found with methamphetamine in the apartment of Wendell Nicholson. Nicholson and his girlfriend, Lisa Land, who was in the apartment when the items were found and has laid claim to some of the money, moved to suppress evidence found in the apartment, arguing that the officers had unlawfully entered the apartment without a search warrant. The trial court denied their motion to suppress, finding that the warrantless entry was justified by exigent circumstances, and the court…