State v. Vargas

OPINION

DONNELLY, Judge.

1. In these consolidated cases we review Defendants’ contentions that the trial court erred in upholding the exigent circumstances exception to the knoek-and-announce rule, and in denying their motions to suppress controlled substances seized by law enforcement officers incident to their execution of arrest warrants upon Defendants at their residence. Because our review of the record indicates the existence of evidence from which the trial court could properly determine that exigent circumstances justified the officers’ decision to dispense with the knock- and-announce…