Court Opinion

ID: 9590559
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:56:01.274112+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:34:21.763010
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NEWMAN, J.,
concurring.
I concur in the majority’s opinion holding that the evidence should be suppressed even assuming that the officers’ initial entry into the house was justified by a concern for the safety of the child. Once Killmon, the child’s father, was found there was no practical necessity for any officer to go farther into the house. See State v. Lowry, 295 Or 337, 347, 667 P2d 996 (1983).
I also concur, however, in that portion of Judge Buttler’s concurrence that holds that the evidence should be suppressed because the officers’ entry into defendant’s house was unlawful in the first place.