The State v. Rucker

Branch, Judge.

A trial court granted Charles Rucker’s motion to suppress a handgun recovered in a warrantless search of the camper where he lived while on probation. On appeal from that ruling, the State argues that the trial court erred when it granted the motion because Rucker had agreed that his residence could be searched without a warrant as a condition of his probation and because the search was not unreasonable. We conclude that under the circumstances of this search, which include Rucker’s valid waiver of his Fourth Amendment rights, neither the officers’ entry by invitation into the…