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AR: 911 call about potential suicide and police found foul odor during consensual entry and led to valid walk through

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

911 call to a potentially suicidal person brought police to defendant’s house. Once inside, they saw a blood stain and smelled a foul odor from what turned out to be corpses found in a valid walk through before the officers left the house. Miller v. State, 2010 Ark. 1, 2010 Ark. LEXIS 3 (January 7, 2010): Keeping in mind Rule 14.3 and this court's application of that rule, we turn now to the Facts surrounding the search in this case. Fort Smith Police Officer Stephen Hutchinson testified at the hearing on the motion to suppress that he was dispatched pursuant to a 911 call from Miller's father, who was in Colorado and had received a text message from Miller stating that Miller was thinking of killing himself with pills. Officer Hutchinson and Officer Derek Harwood went to an apartment rented to Bridgette Barr to conduct a welfare check on Miller...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on January 13, 2010 (boomark / email).