Court Opinion

ID: 9796736
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 04:03:57.357412+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:51:15.657607
License: Public Domain

LUMPKIN, Presiding Judge,
Dissent.
¶ I must respectfully dissent to the Court's analysis and decision in this case. In applying the statutory language, "review of the issue would be in the best interest of justice", the focus of the Court should be on the correctness of the trial court's decision and not on the quantum of the State's evidence the suppressed statement represents. This Court has no way of truly knowing how substantial the suppressed evidence is to the State's case. However, we do have the ability to determine as a matter of law, applying all the legal presumptions, whether the decision of the trial judge is legally sustainable.