Court Opinion

ID: 9633674
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:56:26.631678+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:08:39.605603
License: Public Domain

HOWE, Justice:
(concurring and dissenting).
I concur except I would not reach and determine the constitutionality of section 77-35-12(g), also known as rule 12(g), Utah Rules of Criminal Procedure. The majority correctly holds that the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule enunciated in United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897, 104 S.Ct. 3405, 82 L.Ed.2d 677 (1984), cannot apply to the warrantless search made in the instant case. For the same reasons and because of the inherent lack of good faith in their making, section 77-35-12(g) does not apply to such searches. See sub-paragraphs (3)(ii) and (iii) of section 78-35-12(g).
I would not attempt to apply the statute to a fact situation it was never intended to cover (warrantless search) and then because it is unconstitutional as there applied, declare the statute unconstitutional in all *188situations. I would reserve ruling on the constitutionality of section 77-35-12(g) until that question is presented in the context of a search conducted pursuant to a warrant.