{"id":15775,"date":"2025-10-19T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/?p=15775"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:55:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:55:43","slug":"good-faith-exception-exclusionary-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/good-faith-exception-exclusionary-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"State v. Rogers: Slow Death of the Exclusionary Rule in NC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>TL;DR Quick Take: <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Carolina v. Rogers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> could prove to be one of the most consequential constitutional rulings in North Carolina criminal <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15780 lazyload\" src=\"\/jshared\/img\/icons\/spinner.svg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXCLUSIONARY-RULE-IN-NC-300x168.webp\" alt=\"A senior North Carolina judge sits in a historic courtroom, wearing a black judicial robe and gazing forward with a thoughtful, serious expression. Sunlight filters through tall arched windows, reflecting the dignity and gravity of constitutional decision-making in North Carolina\u2019s courts\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXCLUSIONARY-RULE-IN-NC-300x168.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXCLUSIONARY-RULE-IN-NC-1024x574.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXCLUSIONARY-RULE-IN-NC-768x431.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXCLUSIONARY-RULE-IN-NC-1000x561.webp 1000w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXCLUSIONARY-RULE-IN-NC-214x120.webp 214w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXCLUSIONARY-RULE-IN-NC.webp 1312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> law in decades. The opinion not only interprets N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-974 but also redefines how North Carolina courts understand the relationship between the Fourth Amendment and Article I, Section 20 of the North Carolina State Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As applied, the Good Faith Exception articulated in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/appellate.nccourts.org\/opinions\/?c=1&amp;pdf=45258\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State v. Rogers<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reverses longstanding precedent set forth in\u00a0<em>North Carolina v. Carter<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">The burden quietly shifts to the accused to demonstrate unreasonableness, reversing long-standing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/due-process-north-carolina-dui-defense-lawyers\/\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Due Process<\/a> protections and draining both the fruit and the fiber from the \u201cpoisonous tree.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/good-faith-exception-exclusionary-rule\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading State v. Rogers: Slow Death of the Exclusionary Rule in NC?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR Quick Take: North Carolina v. Rogers could prove to be one of the most consequential constitutional rulings in North Carolina criminal law in decades. The opinion not only interprets N.C.G.S. \u00a7 15A-974 but also redefines how North Carolina courts understand the relationship between the Fourth Amendment and Article I, Section 20 of the North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,90],"tags":[2392,110,1809,2398,169,1816,1800,1652,529,1655,2379,2397,2400,2394,1548,2214,2250,2381,1587,340,1140,2393,2401,2399,2396,2395],"class_list":["post-15775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-defense","category-dui","tag-article-i-section-20","tag-bill-powers-attorney","tag-constitutional-law","tag-constitutional-remedies","tag-criminal-defense-lawyer","tag-criminal-procedure","tag-due-process","tag-exclusionary-rule","tag-fourth-amendment","tag-fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree","tag-good-faith-exception","tag-herring-v-united-states","tag-legal-analysis","tag-mapp-v-ohio","tag-nc-supreme-court","tag-north-carolina-constitution","tag-north-carolina-criminal-law","tag-north-carolina-v-rogers","tag-powers-law-firm-charlotte","tag-probable-cause","tag-search-and-seizure","tag-state-constitutional-rights","tag-state-v-rogers","tag-suppression-motions","tag-united-states-v-leon","tag-weeks-v-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State v. 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