Court Opinion

ID: 9700638
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 21:38:50.27399+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:12.533297
License: Public Domain

NICHOLS, Justice,
dissenting.
I cannot join today’s majority.
All we have before us is an Agreed Statement of Facts upon which the parties chose to pursue this appeal. We examine that sparse statement in vain for any showing of “at least some countervailing factors” which might make this occasion truly an exigency. Niro v. United States, 388 F.2d 535, 539 (1st Cir.1968). The burden is on those seeking an exception from the warrant requirement to show the need for the exception. United States v. Jeffers, 342 U.S. 48, 51, 72 S.Ct. 93, 95, 96 L.Ed. 59 (1951). The State has not met that burden here.
Therefore, I would affirm the order of suppression.