State v. Nabarro

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LEVINSON, J.

This court held, in State v. Davenport, 55 Haw. 90, 100, 516 P.2d 65, 72 (1973), that a lawfully issued warrant to search premises extends to the officers executing it the “authority to search, in a reasonable manner, whatever spots within the described premises their professional experience indicates may be used as a cache” for the items named in the warrant. The time has come for us to decide whether this general principle sanctions a search, pursuant to the execution of a lawful warrant to search premises only, of an individual or his belongings, when the…