IN RE J.M.E.

No. 97,780.

162 P.3d 835 (2007)

In the Matter of J.M.E., A Child Under the Age of Eighteen.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

July 27, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jaime Blackwell, assistant county attorney, and Ellen H. Mitchell, county attorney, for appellant.

James L. Sweet, of Sweet & Sheahon, of Salina, for appellee.

Before GREEN, P.J., ELLIOTT and HILL, JJ.


HILL, J.

The State seeks our reversal of a district court's order suppressing drug evidence after the court concluded police officers who searched a car had no specific and articulable facts on which to base their search, and thus ruled the officers could not make a search only for safety reasons. We reverse because the record reveals that the officers were engaged in a valid community caretaking function when, after receiving a telephone complaint about a car, they...

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