State v. Howard -Motion to suppress

WALTERS, Judge Pro Tem.

Derk Warner Howard appeals from the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence of a marijuana grow located in his shed on the curtilage of his home. The plants were discovered by police after they went to his front door, knocked, and while at the front door, smelled fresh growing marijuana. Howard contends that under recent United States Supreme Court precedent, Florida v. Jardines, — U.S. —, 133 S.Ct. 1409, 185 L.Ed.2d 495 (2013), the police officers’ entry onto the curtilage of his home and up to his front door (the location where an officer smelled…