State v. Rolfe

The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s judgment of conviction and sentence for third-degree rape, holding that the circuit court did not err in denying Defendant’s motion to suppress evidence obtained from a warrantless search of his garage, holding that Defendant was not seized for Fourth Amendment purposes at the beginning of his encounter with police deputies and that his consent to search the garage was voluntary.On appeal, Defendant asserted that he was unreasonably seized by deputies before the search took place, and therefore, any consent give to search the garage after the seizure was not voluntary. The Supreme Court disagreed, holding that the deputies’ actions were reasonable, Defendant was not seized as soon as the encounter began, and Defendant’s consent to search the garage was voluntary. View "State v. Rolfe" on Justia Law