State v. Othoudt

OPINION

RANDALL, Judge.

The trial court was not clearly and unequivocally wrong when it found appellant’s warrantless in-home arrest invalid because the deputy sheriff lacked consent to proceed into respondent’s home and up to his bedroom. We affirm.

FACTS

The law enforcement officer here, a deputy sheriff, was dispatched to the scene of a one vehicle accident. No one was present when he arrived. He deduced that a pickup truck had crossed a lane of traffic, run off the road and hit a tree. There was damage to the front end of the truck and the windshield. There was also spattered blood inside the…