Title: State v. Oakes

State: vermont

Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court

Document:

NOTICE:  This opinion is subject to motions for reargument under V.R.A.P. 40
as well as formal revision before publication in the Vermont Reports.
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Court, 111 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 of any errors in order
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                                No. 89-506


State of Vermont                             Supreme Court

                                             On Appeal from
     v.                                      District Court of Vermont,
                                             Unit No. 1, Bennington Circuit

Ralph O. Oakes                               October Term, 1990


Robert Grussing III, J.

William Wright, Bennington County State's Attorney, Bennington, and
  Thomas Kelly, Drug Attorney, and Pamela Hall Johnson, Department of
  State's Attorneys, Montpelier, for plaintiff-appellee

Charles S. Martin of Martin & Paolini, P.C., Barre, for defendant-
  appellant


PRESENT:  Allen, C.J., Peck, Gibson, Dooley and Morse, JJ.


     ALLEN, C.J.   The issue presented on appeal to this Court is whether
our state exclusionary rule for violations of Article 11 of the Vermont
Constitution should be limited by the "good faith" exception articulated by
the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Leon,