State v. Gutierrez

OPINION

RANSOM, Chief Justice.

We granted the State’s petition for a writ of certiorari to review an opinion of the Court of Appeals that affirmed the district court’s order suppressing certain evidence obtained through unannounced entry of defendants’ residence as authorized in a search warrant. See State v. Gutierrez, 112 N.M. 774, 819 P.2d 1332 (Ct.App.1991). The issue presented to this Court is whether evidence obtained by virtue of an invalid search warrant nevertheless may be admitted under the exclusionary rule’s “good-faith” exception as articulated by the United States Supreme Court in…