State v. Guillen

OPINION

RYAN, Justice.

¶ 1 The question presented is whether a resident’s consent to search her home is invalid because it was preceded by an allegedly illegal search of which the resident was unaware. We hold that the consent to search is valid under the circumstances.

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¶ 2 In March 2006, police received information that Jose Guillen was storing marijuana in his garage; no investigation took place at that time. Eight months later, after confirming that the house was unoccupied, police called a narcotics officer with a drug-sniffing dog to the scene. The home was not enclosed by a fence and no…