Court Opinion

ID: 9610142
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 03:37:03.74261+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:02:56.816182
License: Public Domain

HARTZ, Judge, (specially concurring). I concur in the result. See Vale v. Louisiana, 399 U.S. 30, 90 S.Ct. 1969, 26 L.Ed.2d 409 (1970) (threatened destruction of evidence); 2 W. LaFave, Search and Seizure § 6.5 (1987) (same); Maryland v. Buie, 494 U.S. 325, 110 S.Ct. 1093, 108 L.Ed.2d 276 (1990) (security sweep); United States v. Jackson, 700 F.2d 181, 189-90 (5th Cir.) (security sweep after arrest outside premises), cert. denied sub nom., Hicks v. United States, 464 U.S. 842, 104 S.Ct. 139, 78 L.Ed.2d 132 (1983). Although in district court the state argued that the evidence could be admitted under the inevitable-discovery rule, the state on appeal has failed to argue that the entry, even if unlawful, did not taint the later search pursuant to a warrant, which would have resulted in the seizure of the same evidence. Therefore, we need not address that argument.