Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:20:02.945764+00
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MOELLER, Justice,
specially concurring.
The trial court held that the use of the silica gel method to capture the second sample violated the defendant’s due process rights. Accordingly, the trial court suppressed the intoxilyzer results, believing suppression to be required by our cases. The validity of this suppression order is the single issue presented in this special action. In section D of the opinion, the majority holds, correctly I believe, that defendant’s due process rights were not violated by use of the silica gel method. This holding disposes of the case. I would have the opinion say no more, recognizing the accuracy of the majority’s observation that “[t]his court’s immersion in the subculture of DUI practice has not been entirely *490satisfactory.” Majority op. at 487, 799 P.2d at 828.
Once the single issue in this case is resolved, there is no reason to add to the opinion, unless the court wishes to accept the parties’ invitation to reexamine and perhaps overrule our earlier cases on this subject in light of later cases such as Young-blood and Trombetta,8 I agree with the majority that “[njothing in the facts before us makes it necessary to decide today whether those cases [Oshrin and Montano ], plus Baca and Scales, need be overruled.” Majority op. at 489, 799 P.2d at 830. Because the majority and I are in agreement that we should not reach such issues in this case, I note my position that the statements and observations contained in section E of the majority opinion are dicta having no application to this or any other case.
In conclusion, because the record shows that the defendant’s due process rights were not violated, I agree that the order of suppression should be reversed.

. Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 51, 109 S.Ct. 333, 102 L.Ed.2d 281 (1988). California v. Trombetta, 467 U.S. 479, 104 S.Ct. 2528, 81 L.Ed.2d 413 (1984).