Court Opinion

ID: 9472045
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 03:47:45.932562+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:42:42.890055
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
PER CURIAM:
The petition for rehearing is DENIED with the following observations.
Since the panel opinion was handed down, the United States Supreme Court has decided Nix v. Williams, — U.S.-, 104 S.Ct. 2501, 81 L.Ed.2d 377 (1984). In that opinion the Court approved the “inevitable discovery” exception to the exclusionary rule, couching it in the following language:
If the prosecution can establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the information ultimately or inevitably would have been discovered by lawful means-here the volunteers’ search-then the deterrence rationale has so little basis that the evidence should be received. Anything less would reject logic, experience, and common sense. Id. at -, 104 S.Ct. at 2509 (footnote omitted).
We do not find this formulation of the inevitable discovery exception to affect our disposition of this case.