Court Opinion

ID: 9861496
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 00:07:08.955669+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:28:34.296877
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Opinion Concurring In Result
Givan, C.J.
I concur in the result of the majority opinion in this case.
I cannot agree that the search of the Appellant’s apartment produced the testimony of his two juvenile accomplices. It is true the record in this case discloses that the police first learned of the existence of these accomplices at the time they were conducting the search of Appellant’s apartment. However, the subsequent decisions of these accomplices to testify against the Appellant were separate and independent of the search and could, by no stretch of the imagination, be deemed to be fruits of the search. Certainly the accomplices could not have escaped prosecution on the basis that their association with the Appellant was discovered at the time an illegal search was being conducted. The search was improper as set out by the majority; the billfold of the victim and the boxes of cartridges found during the search should *37not have been admitted. These items should be excluded on retrial, but the testimony of the accomplices should be admitted.
I would, therefore, remand to the trial court with instructions.
Note. — Reported at 323 N.E.2d 634.