Court Opinion

ID: 9738726
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:01:37.896806+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:08.155904
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*379HEFFERNAN, J.
(concurring). I join in the result reached by the court, but cannot join in the language of the last two paragraphs of section II (A) of the opinion. That language concludes that if a warrant is executed in compliance with statutory time limits, and the probable cause which existed when a magistrate issued the warrant has not dissipated at the time of execution, the seizure of evidence not on the premises when the warrant issued can never be prejudicial to the defendant so as to require suppression.
Whether or not this statement would always be true I am not, on the basis of the facts of this case, prepared to say. Such an absolute view is unnecessary to the result reached by the court and was not addressed by the parties or by the courts below. Under the circumstances I decline to adopt such sweeping obiter dicta.
I am authorized to state that Justice Abrahamson joins in this concurrence.