STATE v. STRIEFF

No. 20120854.

357 P.3d 532 (2015)

2015 UT 2

STATE of Utah, Respondent, v. Edward Joseph STRIEFF, Jr., Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Utah.

January 16, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean D. Reyes , Att'y Gen., Jeffrey S. Gray , Asst. Att'y Gen., Salt Lake City, for respondent.

Joan C. Watt , Robert K. Engar , Salt Lake City, for petitioner.

Justice LEE authored the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice DURRANT, Associate Chief Justice NEHRING, Justice DURHAM, and Justice PARRISH joined. On Certiorari to the Utah Court of Appeals


¶ 1 In this case we are asked to determine the applicability of the "attenuation" exception to the exclusionary rule to a fact pattern addressed in a broad range of lower-court opinions but not by the United States Supreme Court. The essential fact pattern involves an unlawful detention leading to the discovery...

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