People v. Doucet CA1/2

BACKGROUND

On September 20, 2022, in Humboldt County Superior Court, Doucet pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine for sale (Health & Saf. Code, § 11378) (No. CR2202468). On October 18, he was placed on two years formal probation. The Searches On April 1, 2023, Detective Brian Buihner and Deputy Sheriff Jonathan Waxler, along with two other members of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department, conducted a search of Doucet’s residence on Garden Lane in Bayside. Detective Buihner described the residence as a “single- width mobile home trailer attached to a more permanent wooden structure” with a roof, and “a raised, wooden patio.” Outside, Detective Buihner found “clutter and trash everywhere,” including “bikes, power tools, . . . refrigerators, freezers, [and] power cables.” After announcing themselves, Detective Buihner and Deputy Waxler were let into the residence by Doucet’s wife, Kathleen Ellis, who was inside with the couple’s son, John Doe.2 Detective Buihner described the interior of the residence as “[e]xtremely dirty,” with “clutter [and] trash everywhere,” including “cables all over the ground” and a “floorboard [that] was broken.” Directly across from the front…