Court Opinion

ID: 9528507
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:41:41.906855+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:26:23.247001
License: Public Domain

WILLIAM A. BABLITCH, J.
(concurring). I agree with the majority that the playing of the tape was reasonable under the inventory exception to the warrant requirement. Majority op. at 137. This was an inadvertent discovery during the course of what the record clearly reveals was an inventory search. The dissent erroneously asserts that "the record is clear that the law *146enforcement officers were conducting not an inventory search but a search for specific items named in the search warrant." Id. Dissenting op. at 148 (Abrahamson, J., dissenting). Contrary to the dissent's assertion, the record establishes that the officers were removing all items from Weber's vehicle and logging each of them for inventory purposes on the warrant return.