People v. Williams
Annotate this CaseThe Court of Appeal affirmed the denial of defendants' motion to suppress evidence and to quash and traverse the warrant pursuant to Penal Code 1538.5 after defendants were convicted of one felony count of dog fighting and one felony count of animal cruelty. The court held that officers' decision to walk into defendants' back yard and inspect the kennels was justified by exigent circumstances. Even assuming that the decision was not justified by exigent circumstances, the warrant was nonetheless valid because the affidavit contained substantial information supporting a finding of probable cause, even without the information obtained by the officers' search of the back yard.
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