State v. Quigley

¶ 1. The State appeals the Chittenden District Court’s decision suppressing evidence obtained from defendant’s locked bedroom during the execution of a warrant to search the apartment where he lived with two other full-time students. The State contends that investigating officers reasonably-believed that defendant, Jay Quigley, lived in a “communal” living situation, such that a single warrant generally describing the entire apartment justified their search of his locked bedroom. After reviewing the district court’s findings, and the record on which they are based, we conclude that the…