Opinion ID: 2214297
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Heading: Plain View Exception

Text: ¶ 62 Pinkard concedes that the evidence seized in his bedroom was in plain view. Moreover, Pinkard does not dispute that if we conclude that the officers lawfully entered his home, the officers lawfully seized the items in plain view. See State v. Johnston, 184 Wis.2d 794, 809, 518 N.W.2d 759 (1994) (citing Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443, 465, 91 S.Ct. 2022, 29 L.Ed.2d 564 (1971)) (concluding that where an initial intrusion that brings the police within plain view of contraband is lawful under one of the recognized exceptions to the warrant requirement, the subsequent seizure of the contraband is legitimate). Accordingly, because we conclude that the officers' initial intrusion into Pinkard's home falls within the scope of the community caretaker exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement, the seizure of the items within plain view was lawful.