State v. Jardinez

¶1 The State of Washington appeals the trial court’s suppression, as trial evidence, of a video found by a community corrections officer on parolee Felipe Jardinez’s iPod and a shotgun seized at his home. The appeal requires us to address the scope of RCW 9.94A-.631(1), which under certain circumstances permits a warrantless search of a parolee by a corrections officer. Since the search of the iPod did not relate to a suspected parole violation and the seizure of the gun was the result of viewing a video on the iPod, we affirm the trial court.

Fearing, J.

FACTS

¶2 Felipe R. Jardinez previously…