T.J.H. v. S.N.F.

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• following state and federal precedents in holding that evidence of crimes other than arson, when observed in plain view by lire officials lawfully on premises, may be seized without warrant without violating state constitution
• \[i]t is by now common knowledge that cocaine is often packaged as a white powder in small plastic bags\ [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “suppression of [evidence observed in plain view by fireman lawfully on premises] would elevate form over substance and would undermine three decades of state and federal precedent that has sought to infuse logic and common sense into the exclusionary rule”

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