Court Opinion

ID: 9660314
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:10:08.887071+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:17.723211
License: Public Domain

SMITH, Justice
(concurring specially).
I concur with the main opinion. I write only to note that at the time a search warrant is challenged, the affiant, or additional witnesses produced by the affiant, may not recall the details of critical supplemental testimony that was provided to the judge or magistrate when the warrant was issued. Thus, in order to preserve *498this supplemental testimony, Rule 3.9(a), Ala. R.Crim. P., provides that “[s]uch additional sworn examination shall be recorded verbatim by a court reporter, by recording equipment, or by other means .... ”