State v. Small

Defendant probationer Fatina Small appeals an order from the Eighth Judicial District, Cascade County, revoking her deferred sentence for probation violations and sentencing her to serve three years in the Montana State Prison at Deer Lodge. (Sentence suspended in its entirety.) We affirm.

The issue on appeal is whether the warrantless search initiated by defendant’s probation officer pursuant to the terms of her probation violated her constitutional rights. We hold that it did not.

Defendant was charged by information on September 3, 1986, with three counts of felony drug violations for the…