State v. Wilmoth

In their single proposition of law, appellants contend that a search warrant issued on the basis of unsworn oral statements of police officers is defective and requires suppression of any evidence obtained therefrom. This contention is without merit.

The United States Supreme Court has recently modified the exclusionary rule in United States v. Leon (1984), 468 U.S__, 82 L. Ed. 2d 677. In that case, the court held that the exclusionary rule should not be applied to suppress evidence obtained by police officers acting in objectively reasonable, good faith reliance on a search warrant issued by…