Court Opinion

ID: 9558035
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:01:59.936271+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:04:53.182060
License: Public Domain

BUSSEY, Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part:
While I am in accord with that portion of the majority opinion that upholds the validity of the affidavit and search warrant in so far as the films seized are concerned; however, I believe it is reasonable to assume that at a place of business, open to the public and requiring cash before admission, books and records would be maintained on the premises that would tend to establish the identity of the operator of the business. Those books and records, like latent fingerprints, could not be discernable to the ordinary theatre patron. It is not unreasonable to assume that records relating to the operator would probably be present. Having established probable cause that the obscene films were on the described premises, there was also probable cause to believe that “the records pertaining to the operation of the 23rd Street Cinema X” or “items of personal property which tend to establish” its *1377ownership, were also present on the premises. They were described with sufficient particularity so as not to render either the affidavit or the search warrant as general. I would affirm the conviction.