State v. Hilton

| iWrit granted.

The district court suppressed drug and firearms evidence seized from a building in a residential neighborhood. The evidence was seized pursuant to a . search warrant. The district court found that prior to obtaining the warrant, the police trespassed when they eschewed knocking on the front door and instead went , to a side door to knock and announce their presence. Because the request for a search warrant was based on drug and gun evidence the police observed during a protective sweep of the building, the district court ruled that the warrant was the product of an unlawful…