New Jersey has no “trashy house exception” to the warrant requirement for the search of a home—even one with broken front windows, a padlocked front door, no electricity, a garbage-filled interior and a rear door off its hinges.
The state Supreme Court held Wednesday in State v. Brown that police should have done more to ascertain if a dilapidated Camden property was abandoned and thus no warrant was needed.
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