Search and Seizure – exigent circumstances – consent

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Wisconsin Court of Appeals

Criminal

Search and Seizure – exigent circumstances – consent

APPEAL from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee County: MICHAEL GUOLEE and WILLIAM POCAN, Judges. Affirmed.

Andre A. Bridges appeals a judgment of conviction for possession with intent to distribute heroin, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute ecstasy, and felon in possession of a firearm. Bridges argues the trial court erred by denying his suppression motion. He asserts that: he had standing to challenge the search of his friend’s apartment and basement, the police did not have exigent circumstances to enter the apartment without a warrant, the apartment resident did not give voluntary consent to search the apartment, and the subsequent consent to search the basement of the apartment was not sufficiently attenuated from the initial illegal entry. We affirm.

DISTRICT I; Milwaukee County; MICHAEL GUOLEE and WILLIAM POCAN; Curley, P.J., Brennan, J., and Thomas Cane

2013AP000350-CR State v. Andre A. Bridges

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