Court Opinion

ID: 9614278
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:23:57.829422+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:03:34.725759
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JOHNSON, Justice,
Dissenting.
I respectfully dissent.
In my view, the Court’s acceptance of the reasonable belief of authority over the premises exception to the warrant requirement does serious violence to the protections afforded by art. 1, § 17 of our state constitution.
With all due respect to the opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court in Illinois v. Rodriguez, 497 U.S. 177, 110 S.Ct. 2793 (1990), I find it is inconsistent with the protection afforded by our state constitution. As I see it, reasonable belief and reasonable search are not synonymous. A warrantless search is per se unreasonable unless it is made under one of the recognized exceptions to the warrant requirement; one of these exceptions is a search conducted pursuant to a properly given consent. State v. Johnson, 110 Idaho 516, 522, 716 P.2d 1288, 1294 (1986). An officer’s reasonable belief that the person giving consent actually had authority to consent, does not create the authority.
McDEVITT, C.J., concurs.