Howell v. State

MOYLAN, Judge.

This appeal by Charles Brian Howell is a frustrating one. The cause for frustration is that the slippery quality of its lone argument is not an isolated instance of fuzzy and imprecise logic and thought but sadly representative of a growing trend toward such fuzziness and imprecision. Our rejection of the claim may serve one normative purpose: to help lay to rest the myth that some undifferentiated exclusionary rule hovers vaguely above us like a precept of natural law, waiting to be invoked whenever some reviewing authority is displeased with the course of investigative…