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Robert BURTON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District2018-03-02No. Case No. 5D15–1310
237 So. 3d 488

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COHEN, C.J.

In Burton v. State, No. SC16-1116, 2018 WL 798521 (Fla. Feb. 9, 2018), the Florida Supreme Court summarily quashed this Courts prior opinion in Burton v. State, 191 So.3d 543 (Fla. 5th DCA 2016), and remanded for reconsideration based on Carpenter v. State, 228 So.3d 535 (Fla. 2017). In Carpenter, the majority held that the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule does not apply when law enforcement is not relying on the type of longstanding, thirty-year appellate precedent such as that at issue in Davis v. United States, 564 U.S. 229, 131 S.Ct. 2419, 180 L.Ed.2d 285 (2011). Carpenter, 228 So.3d at 542.

Upon consideration of Carpenter, the good-faith exception as articulated in Davis was inapplicable in the instant case. Therefore, Burtons motion to suppress evidence taken from the warrantless search of his cell phone incident to his arrest should have been granted. See id.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

PALMER, J., concur.

BERGER, J., concurs specially, with opinion

BERGER, J., concurring specially

While I continue to believe the police acted in good faith when they searched Burtons cell phone without a warrant, I am constrained to concur based on the Florida Supreme Courts opinion in Carpenter v. State, 228 So.3d 535 (Fla. 2017).