Court Opinion

ID: 9861946
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 00:55:40.208815+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:29:50.659788
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PIVARNIK, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent from the majority opinion here in that I feel defendant Sims did knowingly and voluntarily waive his rights in giving the consent to search to the police.
This is a companion case to Albert Larkin v. State of Indiana, (1979) - Ind. -, 393 N.E.2d 180, where we unanimously affirmed Larkin’s conviction and found that the very same search was proper and that Sims, in giving his consent to the police, had waived any rights he had. Larkin had attempted, in his case, to have the evidence suppressed, based on the fact that Sims’ consent to search was not valid. We said therein: “In light of these circumstances, we hold that Sims’ consent to search was valid and therefore appellant cannot have the evidence obtained through the search suppressed on that basis.”
The majority here would be in direct conflict with that case. I think we were correct in Larkin and I would vote to affirm the trial court here.
GIVAN, C. J., concurs.