Court Opinion

ID: 9687530
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 16:33:57.658307+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:07:50.943753
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NEUMAN, Justice
(dissenting).
For the reasons expressed in my dissent to State v. Doran, 563 N.W.2d 620, 623 (Iowa 1997) (Neuman, J., dissenting), I cannot join the majority opinion. The constitutional reasonableness of a statute that purports to authorize a search that is neither pursuant to warrant, incident to custodial arrest, or based on probable cause simply cannot be decided in the abstract. The validity of such a search is “pre-eminently the sort of question which can only be decided in the concrete factual context of the individual case.” Sibron v. New York, 392 U.S. 40, 59, 88 S.Ct. 1889, 1901, 20 L.Ed.2d 917, 932 (1968). The United States Supreme Court has never departed from this principle and neither, I respectfully suggest, should we.