State v. Clark

The defendant, Lander Ray Clark, was charged with the crime of burglary in the second degree. His pretrial motion to suppress certain evidence was heard and denied. Trial to the court, sitting with a jury, resulted in a judgment of guilty. Clark’s appeal challenges the denial of the motion to suppress.

The determinative evidence is uncontradicted. Soon after 8:30 p.m., on December 15, 1973, two Seattle police officers were directed to investigate the triggering of a silent alarm in a Seattle residence. When they arrived in their patrol car at a point about 300 yards from the residence, they…