State v. Rogers

Defendants Candace and George Rogers appeal the denial of their motion to suppress evidence obtained in a search of their home, arguing that the warrant under which the search was conducted was defective. Defendants assert that the visual observation of their garden, performed by a state trooper for the purpose of corroborating an anonymous tip that defendants were cultivating marijuana on their property, was an illegal search under the federal and Vermont constitutions and consequently could not support a finding of probable cause for issuance of the search warrant. We affirm.

Defendants own…