Court Opinion

ID: 9632986
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:30:32.963615+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:02:57.179487
License: Public Domain

HOWE, Justice,
concurring in the result:
I concur in the result. In doing so, I express no opinion as to the constitutionality of the roadblock under either the federal or the state constitution. I am willing for the purposes of this case to abide by the State’s concession that the roadblock violated the United States Constitution, which renders moot any question of violation of rights under the Utah Constitution. I agree with Judge Bench that the analysis of the court of appeals on the state constitutional issue is dictum.
I likewise express no opinion as to the attenuation issue. Under the view I took in Sims v. State Tax Commission, 841 P.2d 6 (1992), it was unnecessary for me to reach that issue. However, a majority of this court did reach that issue, and they decided it favorably to Sims. Thus, res judicata is properly invoked here.