Court Opinion

ID: 9663216
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:32:01.493617+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:46.832780
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*741SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, J.
(concurring). In State v. Callaway, 106 Wis. 2d 503, 317 N.W.2d 428 (1982), this court, by way of triple-dicta, discarded without reason or justification the automatic standing rule. The dicta of Callaway, having apparently survived the test of time — four days — is, by way of dicta in this case, characterized as and elevated to the status of the holding of Callaway.
I join the majority in the limited holding of the case: the warrantless search was reasonable under the automobile exception. There was probable cause (objective standard), and there were exigent circumstances (objective and subjective standard, State v. Prober, 98 Wis. 2d 345, 365, 297 N.W.2d 1 (1980)).
I am authorized to state that Justice Nathan S. Heffernan joins this concurring opinion.