Nottingham v. State

(dissenting) :

I must respectfully dissent to this decision. It is regrettable when an apparently guilty party escapes punishment, because he was convicted on unlawfully obtained evidence; but there is a paramount consideration — the imperative of judicial integrity. “Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.” Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 659, 81 S.Ct. 1684, 6 L.Ed.2d 1081 (1961). “If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto…