State v. Walle

This is a criminal case in which defendant seeks reversal of the judgment entered on her conviction for the crime of Manufacture of a Controlled Substance. The sole issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in failing to suppress evidence seized as a result of a warrantless search and seizure on property where the defendant was living. We conclude that the warrantless search and seizure was unreasonable and therefore reverse.

The evidence introduced at the suppression hearing reveals that on September 25, 1979, Jackson County detectives executed a search warrant on property adjacent to…