Legal Opinion · Dissent

People v. McKnight

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided May 20, 2019No. 17SC584, PeoplePublished

1DissentChief Justice Coats

¶65 Apart from my objections to much of the majority's selective and at times revisionist promenade through the history of both federal and state search and seizure law, I object specifically to its radical reconstruction, in the wake of our recent marijuana initiative, of the state's own constitutional Bill of Rights. Although the majority does its best to avoid addressing the issue, I believe the most significant aspect of its rationale today concerns the question of federal supremacy, the nature and scope of which may be more at issue today, in various contexts, than has been the case at…

2Cases cited33 opinions

  1. Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  3. United States v. LeonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  4. Stone v. PowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  5. Weeks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1914

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