State v. Phillips
Annotate this CaseAfter police officers knocked on the door to Defendant's residence to ask for directions they confiscated forty plants of marijuana. Defendant pled guilty to criminal production or manufacture of dangerous drugs, a felony. Defendant appealed the denial of his motion to suppress the results of the search of his residence, arguing that because officers had no reason to enter his property, they were not lawfully in a place where they could see the marijuana in plain view. The Supreme Court (1) affirmed the district court's denial of Defendant's motion to suppress, as the officers were lawfully on Defendant's property, and thus their observations of the marijuana in plain view were an appropriate basis for the charges; but (2) reversed the district court's imposition of the cost of court-appointed counsel, as the amount of that cost exceeded the statutorily allowed amount.
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