Opinion ID: 2189753
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Heading: The State Constitutional Argument.

Text: Kain also urges that irrespective of whether an exclusionary rule in probation revocation hearings is mandated under the applicable provisions of the federal constitution, we should hold that exclusion is required under article I, section 8 of the Iowa constitution. We reject this contention for two reasons. First, as indicated in State v. Groff, 323 N.W.2d 204, 207-08 (Iowa 1982), our interpretation of article I, section 8 has quite consistently tracked with prevailing federal interpretations of the fourteenth amendment in deciding similar issues. Examples supporting this conclusion are State v. Roth, 305 N.W.2d 501, 507 (Iowa 1981) and State v. Olsen, 293 N.W.2d 216, 219-20 (Iowa 1980). The second reason we reject Kain's plea for a different interpretation under the state constitution is our belief that we gave full consideration to all of the competing policy issues arising in the present case in State v. Swartz, 278 N.W.2d 22, 23-25 (Iowa 1979). In that case, we adopted, independently of any controlling federal precedent, a constitutional balancing test which does not require the extension of the exclusionary rule into the present area. We are reluctant to retract from these views in the present case and therefore reject Kain's claims under the state constitution.