Court Opinion

ID: 9760802
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 01:17:24.845281+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:17.392355
License: Public Domain

WIEAND, Judge,
concurring:
I agree that the present state of the law, as ably reviewed in the opinion of Judge Lipez, requires suppression of the fruits of an arrest based on a warrant previously withdrawn by the court even though the arresting officer reasonably and in good faith believed the warrant to be viable at the time he made the arrest. As a member of an intermediate appellate court I must decline the invitation to join the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit which has recognized “technical violation” and “good faith mistake” exceptions to the exclusionary rule. See: United States v. Williams, 622 F.2d 830 (5th Cir.1980), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 1127, 101 S.Ct. 946, 67 L.Ed.2d 114, citing Ball, Good Faith and the Fourth Amendment: The “Reasonable” Exception to the Exclusionary Rule, 69 J.Crim.L. & Criminology 635 (1978). See also: Pesci v. State, 420 So.2d 380 (Fla.Dist.Ct.App. 1982). I cannot help but observe, however, that such an exception to the exclusionary rule would certainly make it unnecessary to suppress the' contraband seized in the instant case.