Opinion ID: 2632445
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Heading: Good faith exception under article I, section 7

Text: ¶ 83 Gonzales first claims that because article I, section 7 provides greater protection against search and seizure than the Fourth Amendment and Washington courts do not recognize a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule, the evidence obtained from the vehicle must be suppressed. ¶ 84 As noted in footnote 19, Gonzales relies on State v. Nall, 117 Wash.App. 647, 72 P.3d 200 (2003) for the proposition that Washington courts do not recognize a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule. However, Nall does not support Gonzales' argument because it involved the good faith exception to the probable cause requirement. Moreover, contrary to Gonzales' claim, the State has not urged us to adopt an exception to the exclusionary rule and does not need to. The State argues only that Officer Black searched Gonzales' vehicle under a well recognized exception to the warrant requirement because the search was conducted incident to Gonzales' arrest. ¶ 85 We conclude there is no reasonable probability that the outcome of the proceeding would have been different even if Gonzales' attorney had moved to suppress the evidence obtained in the vehicle search on the grounds that Washington courts do not recognize a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule.