State V.charles Bryant,jr.(075958)(middlesex County and Statewide)

Certain core principles underpin our search and seizure jurisprudence. Individual privacy rights, especially in the home, are among the most protected. As Justice Robert L. Clifford wrote for the Court, “we are not dealing with a mere formality but with an underlying great constitutional principle embraced by free men and expressed in substantially identical language in both our federal and state constitutions.” State v. Fariello, 71 N.J. 552, 559, 366 A.2d 1313 (1976) (citation omitted). In the present case, we must balance those important privacy interests with the practical and safety…