Court Opinion

ID: 9663973
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:56:43.772299+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:59.910623
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CARTER, Justice
(concurring ■ in part and dissenting in part).
I concur in the decision to suppress the results of defendant’s breath test based on our decision in State v. McAteer, 290 N.W.2d 924, 925 (Iowa 1980). I dissent from that portion of the opinion that extends the suppression remedy applied to chemical test results in McAteer and State v. Vietor, 261 N.W.2d 828, 832 (Iowa 1978), *676to matters of custodial interrogation. The constitutional protections afforded to persons in police custody provide an adequate safeguard against improper police interrogation. Consequently, the circumstances do not warrant the additional remedy that the court now derives from Iowa statutory law in the absence of a clear indication that the legislature intended that result.2
TERNUS, J., joins this concurrence in part and dissent in part.

. The majority of the court is incorrect in suggesting that it would be inconsistent to provide a suppression-of-evidence remedy for violations of the statute when chemical testing is involved and failing to provide such a remedy with respect to interrogation. There would be no inconsistency in doing that. Although the constitutional protections, including Miranda warnings, give adequate protection against unwarranted police interrogation, those safeguards are of little assistance to an arrested party with regard to the decision that must be made with respect to chemical testing. Denial of the statutory right to outside assistance in making the latter decision may only be vindicated by suppression of the test results.