State v. Blevins

I dissent. Although “ ‘the standard of probable cause must be particularized to every person or place to be searched,’ ” State v. Covington, 904 P.2d 209, 211 (Utah Ct.App.1995) (quoting State v. Ayala, 762 P.2d 1107, 1111 (Utah Ct.App.1988)), the affidavit supporting the search warrant in this case failed to establish the requisite nexus between the criminal activity in question and all persons — and their vehicles — arriving at the premises.

“[T]he forefathers, after consulting the lessons of history, designed our Constitution to place obstacles in the way of a too permeating police…