State v. Helmka

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the “reviewing court should not engage in a hyper-technical examination of the affidavit”
• rejecting argument that warrant to search entire household based on observation of marijuana plants in one room through a street window was over broad
• growing marijuana plant seen through an apartment window justified search of entire premises
• magistrate could reasonably infer from the presence of marijuana plants that additional plants might be present on the premises
• court held the magistrate could reasonable infer that additional marijuana beyond the growing marijuana plants identified in the search warrant might be present on the premises searched
• “Frobable cause cannot be made out by conclusory affidavits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).