{"id":5308,"date":"2011-12-19T16:10:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T05:26:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T05:26:12","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5308","title":{"rendered":"NM: Working methamphetamine lab is exigency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers stopped a man coming out of defendant\u2019s house, and he said that there was a working meth lab inside. That was exigency for a warrantless entry. The dangers of the chemical process in a meth lab have been held to be exigency in New Mexico. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmcompcomm.us\/nmcases\/NMCA\/2011\/11ca-019.pdf\">State v. Allen<\/a>, 2011 NMCA 19, 149 N.M. 267, 247 P.3d 1152 (2010), Certiorari Denied, January 25, 2011, No. 32,785:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[*16]  In <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=5707812053127552155&amp;q=111+N.M.+47&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,4\">Calloway<\/a>, we concluded that the presence of the potentially hazardous nature of the chemicals used to manufacture meth constitutes exigency. 111 N.M. at 50, 801 P.2d at 120.  Fourteen years later, in dealing with a purported violation of the knock and announce rule, <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=15856938516300874398&amp;q=135+N.M.+615&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,4\">State v. Johnson<\/a> recognized that in at least two other jurisdictions, courts have held that \u201cwhere officers know there is a [meth] lab in operation, that knowledge may create exigency\u201d because of the risk of fire, explosion, or other potential harms. 2004 NMCA 64, \u00b6 11, 135 N.M. 615, 92 P.3d 61, aff&#8217;d in part, rev\u2019d in part on other grounds, 2006 NMSC 49, 140 N.M. 653, 146 P.3d 298. Despite having made this observation, our Court ultimately determined that the officers did not possess an objectively reasonable belief of exigency because they had only the vaguest suspicion that there was a meth lab inside the dwelling. Id. \u00b6\u00b6 11-12.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5308\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}