Court Opinion

ID: 9604112
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 02:15:07.469904+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:15:03.371474
License: Public Domain

MACY, Chief Justice,
specially concurring.
I write only to comment on the dicta in the majority opinion which states:
The protection against unreasonable searches and seizures found in the Constitution of the State of Wyoming is virtually identical to that found in the federal constitution. Even though the federal law establishes minimum requirements for individual protection and does not mandate any maximum criteria as to the degree of protection afforded an individual under state law, federal interpretations of the Fourth Amendment are regarded as persuasive and this court adheres to them closely absent some contrary direction from the legislature of the State of Wyoming.
(Citations omitted.) I do not concur with the idea that in the future we will blindly follow the United States Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution when we interpret the Wyoming Constitution.