P.

I.

FACTUAL AND

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On August 16, 2010, Sonoma County deputy sheriffs came across a locked bedroom while performing a parole search of the Rohnert Park home of appellant’s brother, Steven Wolfe. 2 As described in more detail below, the officers entered the room and did a protective sweep. Although no one was in the room at the time, the officers saw documents suggesting that the room was inhabited by Bradley. After learning that

1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code. 2 Since the brothers share the same surname, they will be identified solely by their first names throughout the remainder of this opinion.

1 Bradley was on probation, the officers searched the room and found weapons and ammunition. The issues in this appeal arise out of the legality of the officers’ entry into the bedroom. The decision to search Steven’s house was made earlier in the day by Deputy Sheriff Marcus Holton who had received information that Steven possibly had been watching the home of a police chief in a nearby town. Steven had a history of assaulting law enforcement personnel and was on parole for threatening a police officer (§ 69). Holton assembled a search team,…