Court Opinion

ID: 9593960
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:25:54.085556+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:04:54.578006
License: Public Domain

PARKS, Judge,
Specially Concurring:
I write separately only to comment on appellant’s second assignment of error regarding the inventory search of his vehicle. The United States Supreme Court recently addressed the issue of proper inventory searches in Colorado v. Bertine, 479 U.S. 367, 107 S.Ct. 738, 742, 93 L.Ed.2d 739 (1987). In Bertine, the Supreme Court clarified the status of an inventory search by explaining that neither the policies behind the warrant requirement nor the concept of probable cause is implicated by an inventory search.
In the present case, I must agree that the search was conducted in order to inventory the contents of the vehicle. As such, the evidence was discovered pursuant to a constitutionally valid exception to the “warrant” requirement. See Johnson v. State, 764 P.2d 530 (Okla.Crim.App.1988).