State v. Larsen

OPINION

R.A. RANDALL, Judge.

The state challenges a pretrial order that dismissed charges of petty misdemeanor possession of marijuana and fishing with an extra line. The evidence to support those charges was obtained by a Minnesota conservation officer who entered and searched respondent’s ice-fishing house with no articulable suspicion, no probable cause, no search warrant, no- issue of hot pursuit, and the search and seizure did not come under any other exception. We conclude that an individual using an ice-fishing house for personal recreational purposes has a reasonable expectation of…