Opinion ID: 1644285
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: search of the farmstead

Text: On arrival at Abdouch's residence on June 17, Clarks and the officers found an adult babysitter caring for Abdouch's children in Abdouch's absence. When the babysitter said Abdouch would be returning shortly, Sergeant Larson stated the reason for the officers' presence with the Clark family, namely, to take possession of Terry Clark's belongings. Without further incident, the Clark family, including Susan Clark, and the officers entered the house and began looking for tools, clothing, miscellaneous household items, and firearms of Terry Clark, which articles were not specifically described or identified with any degree of particularity. Household furnishings belonged to Abdouch. While members of the Clark family continued to rummage through the house in search of Terry Clark's property, the officers went to a barn, about 50 yards from the house, and, on entering the barn through an open doorway, found two tables comprised of sawhorses and plywood slats. On the tables were 23 plastic trays with paper cups, which contained soil and germinating marijuana seeds, and a plastic bag of marijuana seeds. As the officers left the barn through a side door, they saw six cultivated plots, adjacent to the barn, with seedling marijuana plants in various stages of growth. The officers summoned members of the narcotics unit of the Douglas County Sheriff's Department. Before the narcotics officers arrived, Abdouch returned, was arrested pursuant to the DWI warrant, and was removed to the Douglas County corrections office. When the narcotics officers arrived, Larson briefed them on his discovery at the barn. During this briefing, Terry Clark's sister-in-law called to the officers, asking them to come to the house because Lee, Terry Clark's 8-year-old son, had something to show the officers. Responding, the officers found the boy, apparently at the door, with a paper grocery sack containing 3½ pounds of marijuana seeds. Lee went back inside the house and returned shortly with a bong, a pipe used to smoke marijuana. The officers asked Susan Clark whether they could search the house. According to Deputy William H. Jackson, one of the narcotics officers, entry without a search warrant was not the result of apprehension that potential evidence or contraband might be destroyed or unofficially removed. With Susan Clark's permission, the officers entered the house and commenced their search of its interior. Jackson, searching in the kitchen, found a letter, dated June 15 and presumably written by Abdouch to a person named Ann, which stated: Those seeds we got are doin' great. I just pinched them all, fertilized em! Wait' til' you see them. I wish Kevin was comin' with you. (I) We miss him too. He's got to make me another Blues tape. He has the best blues in the world. I tell ya what a tape for the weed. Huh Kevin?!.... Love Jean. At some point during the officers' search of the house, Terry Clark's sister-in-law gave Jackson a Dream Book, which was Abdouch's diary and contained the May 19 entry, planted dope.