{"id":15757,"date":"2025-10-18T18:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/?p=15757"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:41:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:41:36","slug":"good-faith-exception-exclusionary-rule-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/good-faith-exception-exclusionary-rule-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Faith Exception to the Exclusionary Rule in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"924\" data-end=\"1460\">The Supreme Court of North Carolina\u2019s opinion in <em>North Carolina<\/em><em data-start=\"973\" data-end=\"990\">\u00a0v. Rogers<\/em> (Oct. 17, 2025) deserves careful study by <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15768 lazyload\" src=\"\/jshared\/img\/icons\/spinner.svg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GOOD-FAITH-EXCEPTION-TO-EXCLUSIONARY-RULE-IN-NORTH-CAROLINA-300x168.webp\" alt=\"Police officer standing beside a stopped car in North Carolina at dusk, representing the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule and Fourth Amendment search and seizure law.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GOOD-FAITH-EXCEPTION-TO-EXCLUSIONARY-RULE-IN-NORTH-CAROLINA-300x168.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GOOD-FAITH-EXCEPTION-TO-EXCLUSIONARY-RULE-IN-NORTH-CAROLINA-1024x574.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GOOD-FAITH-EXCEPTION-TO-EXCLUSIONARY-RULE-IN-NORTH-CAROLINA-768x431.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GOOD-FAITH-EXCEPTION-TO-EXCLUSIONARY-RULE-IN-NORTH-CAROLINA-1000x561.webp 1000w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GOOD-FAITH-EXCEPTION-TO-EXCLUSIONARY-RULE-IN-NORTH-CAROLINA-214x120.webp 214w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GOOD-FAITH-EXCEPTION-TO-EXCLUSIONARY-RULE-IN-NORTH-CAROLINA.webp 1312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> criminal defense and DUI defense lawyers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"924\" data-end=\"1460\"><strong>TL;DR<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>Quick Take <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/appellate.nccourts.org\/opinions\/?c=1&amp;pdf=45258\" target=\"_blank\"><em data-start=\"24\" data-end=\"50\">North Carolina v. Rogers<\/em><\/a> reshapes how certain suppression motions may be litigated in North Carolina. The Supreme Court interpreted the 2011 \u201cgood faith\u201d amendment to N.C.G.S. \u00a715A-974 as significantly limiting the scope of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/the-exclusionary-rule-and-how-it-shapes-criminal-procedure-in-north-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\">exclusionary rule<\/a>, allowing evidence obtained through unlawful searches to be admitted if officers relied on objectively reasonable belief in the legality of their conduct. The decision narrows the path for defendants seeking suppression and marks a turning point in how trial courts evaluate Fourth Amendment violations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"924\" data-end=\"1460\"><strong data-start=\"1540\" data-end=\"1572\">Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong> The Supreme Court\u2019s decision in <em data-start=\"1605\" data-end=\"1622\">State v. Rogers<\/em> addressed good-faith reliance on a judicial order, not warrantless arrests or searches. The opinion leaves open whether the same reasoning will apply to warrantless seizures or probable-cause challenges. For now, <em data-start=\"1836\" data-end=\"1844\">Rogers<\/em> appears to narrow the exclusionary rule only in the context of judicially authorized warrants and orders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/good-faith-exception-exclusionary-rule-north-carolina\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Good Faith Exception to the Exclusionary Rule in North Carolina\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of North Carolina\u2019s opinion in North Carolina\u00a0v. Rogers (Oct. 17, 2025) deserves careful study by criminal defense and DUI defense lawyers. TL;DR\u00a0Quick Take North Carolina v. Rogers reshapes how certain suppression motions may be litigated in North Carolina. The Supreme Court interpreted the 2011 \u201cgood faith\u201d amendment to N.C.G.S. \u00a715A-974 as significantly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,90],"tags":[1326,2386,2346,2341,2387,2383,2391,2345,2385,2379,2382,2378,2242,2250,2377,2384,2381,1587,2380,2389,2390,2336,2388,1661,2344],"class_list":["post-15757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-defense","category-dui","tag-bill-powers-criminal-defense-attorney","tag-constitutional-rights-north-carolina","tag-constitutional-search-and-seizure","tag-criminal-defense-lawyers-north-carolina","tag-criminal-procedure-reform","tag-due-process-in-criminal-cases","tag-exclusionary-rule-doctrine","tag-fourth-amendment-north-carolina","tag-good-faith-doctrine","tag-good-faith-exception","tag-judicial-oversight","tag-motion-to-suppress-evidence","tag-north-carolina-criminal-appeals","tag-north-carolina-criminal-law","tag-north-carolina-exclusionary-rule","tag-north-carolina-supreme-court-decisions","tag-north-carolina-v-rogers","tag-powers-law-firm-charlotte","tag-probable-cause-litigation","tag-probable-cause-standard","tag-search-and-seizure-law","tag-search-warrant-challenges","tag-statutory-interpretation-north-carolina","tag-suppression-hearings-north-carolina","tag-unlawful-search-and-seizure"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Good Faith Exception to the Exclusionary Rule in North Carolina &#8212; 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