Court Opinion

ID: 9584780
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:52:36.257988+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:15:48.936303
License: Public Domain

Judge SCHWARTZMAN,
concurring.
I concur in the opinion of this Court. I would only add that a police officer should be presumed to know the speed limit in his own jurisdiction.1 A police officer is generally *126imputed with knowledge of the law. See State v. Johnson, 110 Idaho 516, 521-522, 716 P.2d 1288, 1293-94 (1986). Moreover, if an officer’s “good faith” cannot save a defective search warrant issued by a magistrate, that same “good faith” should not be able to save a stop made because the officer made a mistake as to the applicable speed limit. See State v. Guzman, 122 Idaho 981, 842 P.2d 660 (1992). Otherwise, the standard to be reviewed will become transmuted into not what the law is, but that which the officer, in “good faith,” believes it to be.

. A good-faith mistake by John Q. Citizen about the applicable speed limit or the actual speed of his car will hardly serve as a defense to a speeding ticket.