Court Opinion

ID: 9786766
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 00:02:20.226858+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:36:48.480493
License: Public Domain

*601Judge LANSING,
CONCURRING IN THE RESULT.
I concur with all of the majority opinion except that portion of section 111(A) indicating that even if the firecracker was an unlawful firework, the presence of a single firecracker in the passenger compartment would not provide probable cause for a search of the trunk under the automobile exception. In my view, that portion of the opinion is dicta and concerns an issue that we need not address inasmuch as the Court, earlier in the opinion, determined that the State did not meet its burden to prove that the firecracker was an illegal firework. This dicta does not express my view and appeal’s to be contrary to the position adopted by most jurisdictions that have considered the question of whether a minimal amount of contraband observed in the passenger compartment will justify a search of the trunk. See 3 Wayne R. La-Fave, Search and Seizure, § 7.2(c), p. 487, n. 108 (3d ed.1996).