STATE v. OCHOA

No. 08-0412.

792 N.W.2d 260 (2010)

STATE of Iowa, Appellant, v. James Maximiliano OCHOA, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 17, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Mary E. Tabor (until withdrawal), Cristen O. Douglass (until withdrawal), and then Thomas S. Tauber , Assistant Attorneys General, Karla J. Baumler , Student Legal Extern, Michael J. Walton , County Attorney, and Alan R. Havercamp , Assistant County Attorney, for appellant.

Mark C. Smith , State Appellate Defender, and Stephan J. Japuntich , Assistant Appellate Defender, for appellee.


APPEL, Justice.

In this case, we are called upon to determine the extent to which persons on parole are entitled to constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures under the Iowa Constitution. Here, a police officer conducted a warrantless, suspicionless search of a parolee's motel room. The police officer conducting the search believed that standard "search condition" language in Iowa parole agreements authorized law enforcement officials to...

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