Opinion ID: 2621777
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 9

Heading: Joan Pare (by deposition)-social worker for Department of Health & Welfare, Division of Family & Children Services

Text: Pare testified to the following: her first contact with Stuart was the result of a complaint regarding his son, Gene Lee, in April of 1980. She was contacted on September 19, 1981, after the death of the victim and began to gather a social history of Stuart. She met with Stuart on September 22, 1981, and he revealed the names of Sheri Dally and Vicki Owens (Nelson). On September 22, 1981, Pare met with Stuart's mother who talked about Sheri Dally. Pare interviewed Miller on September 20, 1981. Miller showed her Stuart's address book, which included the names of Theresa Jacobson and Vicki Owens (Nelson). The district court concluded that Pare conducted a very thorough background investigation of Stuart. After the Phase II evidentiary hearing, the district court found that Stuart's constitutional rights had not been violated. The court applied the three exceptions to the exclusionary rule, holding that under the independent origin, inevitable discovery, and attenuated basis exceptions, the monitoring of telephone conversations did not lead to the discovery of witnesses. It is from this ruling that Stuart timely appeals. He argues that by applying exceptions to the exclusionary rule, the district court did not follow the law of the case established by this Court in Stuart III. Stuart argues that the State did not meet its burden of establishing that the evidence in question had an origin independent of the eavesdropping.