Court Opinion

ID: 9813534
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 23:08:58.049725+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:29:34.118086
License: Public Domain

BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I join Judge Moore’s very persuasive dissent and add only the following. Given the sophisticated technologies that the police now have at their disposal, as well as the wide discretion that they currently enjoy, it is especially important that we are careful not to expand their powers beyond what is authorized by the Constitution. In this case, the Constitution has been set aside in the name of expediency. Regrettably, we have descended further down that slippery slope of post-hoc rationalization, where everything that the police do becomes acceptable when viewed in retrospect.
For the reasons set forth by Judge Moore and for these reasons, I respectfully dissent.