FARMER, Judge.
Although not so framed by the parties, the real issue in this case is whether there is a "rooming house" exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution for police officers to enter and search a kitchen in such a residence. We think not and reverse the conviction in this case.
The facts are starkly simple. An officer on routine patrol in a residential section of the city was stopped by a citizen...
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