Adams v. State

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

SULLIVAN, Justice.

This is the second of two cases we decide today involving Dante Adams's difficulties with state revenue and eriminal authorities after cocaine was discovered first in his safety deposit box and later in his home. This case presents the question of whether the cocaine found in a search of the home by revenue authorities who were seeking property to satisfy a tax assessment can be used by criminal authorities in a subsequent drug prosecution. We conclude the search of the home was unconstitutional and that the exclusionary rule bars the use of the…