State v. McKenna
Court of Appeals of Washington
1Opinion of the CourtMorgan, J.
— Denise McKenna appeals her conviction for possession of methamphetamine. We reverse.
On April 26, 1996, the Cowlitz County Jail was overcrowded. As a result, it was refusing to book anyone arrested for only a nonviolent misdemeanor.
*556About 2:30 a.m., Officer Coulter,1 a Kelso police officer, saw a car drive away from what he believed to be a drug house. The car was occupied by a female driver and a male passenger.
Coulter ran a computer check on the car. The results indicated that the car’s annual license tabs had expired. Coulter could see, however, that the car had a current tab on its rear…
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- Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
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