Court Opinion

ID: 9558337
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:07:29.095176+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:08:48.131578
License: Public Domain

*393WERDEGAR, J.
I concur in the majority opinion. I agree, as the majority states, that Segura v. United States (1984) 468 U.S. 796 [104 S.Ct. 3380, 82 L.Ed.2d 599] is dispositive. Because Segura is dispositive, the majority’s discussion of the further question, whether an 18-hour seizure of defendant’s motel room, based only on reasonable suspicion, was a violation of the Fourth Amendment, is unnecessary. Principles of judicial restraint counsel that we not reach out. to decide gratuitously constitutional questions of first impression. Sound jurisprudence dictates that such issues be decided only in the context of cases and controversies actually raising the issue. I would await such a case.