Court Opinion

ID: 9515124
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 22:54:01.312309+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:25.247612
License: Public Domain

MEIERHENRY, Justice
(concurring in result).
[¶ 32.] I concur in result, but write specially on Issue I.
[¶ 33.] I would affirm the trial court’s ruling because Christensen did not preserve this issue for appeal. The hearing in which the trial court determined that the initial entry of Christensen’s home without a warrant was lawful was not transcribed for this Court’s review. Without a transcript of the hearing, we cannot say whether the state did or did not present sufficient evidence of exigent circumstances to justify the warrantless entry of Christensen’s residence. We can only presume the trial court ruled properly. We have consistently held with an incomplete appellate record we presume that the trial court acted correctly. State v. Corey, 2001 SD 53, ¶ 12, 624 N.W.2d 841, 844.