Court Opinion

ID: 9514989
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 22:52:59.86211+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:23.559156
License: Public Domain

AMUNDSON, Justice
(dissenting in part and concurring in part).
[¶ 32.] I dissent on issue one for the same reasons I have dissented in Fourth Amendment cases on numerous prior occasions. See, e.g., State v. Hodges, 2001 SD 93, ¶¶ 27-31, 631 N.W.2d 206, 212-13 (Amundson, J., dissenting) (stating “the majority has all but eviscerated general principles of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence .... ”); State v. Faulks, 2001 SD 115, ¶¶ 25-33, 633 N.W.2d 613, 620-22 (Amundson, J., dissenting) (discussing unreasonable search and seizure); State v. Buchholz, 1999 SD 110, ¶¶ 40-52, 598 N.W.2d 899, 906-10 (Amundson, J., dissenting) (discussing overbreadth of the exigency exception to the warrant requirement).
[¶ 33.] All of these writings elucidate the severe erosion of citizens’ rights against unreasonable searches and seizures. It appears as though citizens no longer possess any constitutional rights the moment they seat themselves in their *278vehicles and start down the public roads and highways. Today, Fourth Amendment jurisprudence simply encompasses too many buzzwords, which have swallowed the protections created by our forefathers.
[¶ 34.] The order of suppression should be affirmed.6

. This record clearly evinces a classic example of a fishing expedition. The transcript of the suppression hearing provides as follows:
Q. At this point, why were you going to talk to the passenger?
A. [Hayes] Mr. Kenyon still seemed a little— seemed nervous. He didn't have any warrants. The vehicle was not coming back as stolen or anything. I haven't informed him of anything like that so I went up, thought that maybe he was possible aware that she [the passenger] had warrants or that something else was wrong in the vehicle. So I went to make contact with her, see if she seemed nervous about the situation.
Q. What do you mean there might be something else wrong with the vehicle?
A. Something inside the vehicle that he’s concerned about. Gives me another chance to go up there and make contact with her, if I see something else laying around. He was still nervous even though I had informed him by that point that he was just going to be getting warnings. I thought that there might be possibly something else wrong still.