{"id":15787,"date":"2025-10-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/?p=15787"},"modified":"2025-11-01T07:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:30:12","slug":"exclusionary-rule-good-faith-exception-state-v-rogers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/exclusionary-rule-good-faith-exception-state-v-rogers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of the Exclusionary Rule in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"528\" data-end=\"876\"><strong data-start=\"528\" data-end=\"549\">TL;DR Quick Take: <\/strong>The legacy of <em data-start=\"566\" data-end=\"592\">North Carolina v. Rogers<\/em> reaches beyond suppression hearings. It redefines how courts balance <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15789 lazyload\" src=\"\/jshared\/img\/icons\/spinner.svg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NORTH-CAROLINA-STATE-CONSTITUTION-300x168.webp\" alt=\"Founding-era statesmen drafting a constitution in a historic law library with quill pens and parchment, symbolizing the creation of the North Carolina State Constitution and early American constitutional law\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NORTH-CAROLINA-STATE-CONSTITUTION-300x168.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NORTH-CAROLINA-STATE-CONSTITUTION-1024x574.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NORTH-CAROLINA-STATE-CONSTITUTION-768x431.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NORTH-CAROLINA-STATE-CONSTITUTION-1000x561.webp 1000w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NORTH-CAROLINA-STATE-CONSTITUTION-214x120.webp 214w, https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NORTH-CAROLINA-STATE-CONSTITUTION.webp 1312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> government trust against the structural necessity of constitutional discipline. Whether this evolution strengthens justice or weakens liberty depends on how future courts interpret the limits of \u201creasonableness\u201d in applying the Good Faith Exception to the Exclusionary Rule.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"878\" data-end=\"943\">I. Constitutional Remedies and the Philosophy of Enforcement<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"945\" data-end=\"1339\">Constitutional rights mean little without remedies that make them enforceable. The framers of the US Constitution understood this when they created mechanisms to restrain power through process.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinaattorneys.com\/blog\/exclusionary-rule-good-faith-exception-state-v-rogers\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading The Future of the Exclusionary Rule in North Carolina\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR Quick Take: The legacy of North Carolina v. Rogers reaches beyond suppression hearings. It redefines how courts balance government trust against the structural necessity of constitutional discipline. Whether this evolution strengthens justice or weakens liberty depends on how future courts interpret the limits of \u201creasonableness\u201d in applying the Good Faith Exception to the Exclusionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,6],"tags":[2413,2392,110,2407,2409,2415,1816,2410,2408,1652,2403,2402,2405,2412,1460,1453,2250,2404,2406,2411,1587,340,1140,2401,2414],"class_list":["post-15787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dui","category-dwi","tag-appellate-review","tag-article-i-section-20","tag-bill-powers-attorney","tag-constitutional-accountability","tag-constitutional-interpretation","tag-constitutional-law-blog","tag-criminal-procedure","tag-due-process-in-north-carolina","tag-dwi-arrest-procedure","tag-exclusionary-rule","tag-fourth-amendment-rights","tag-good-faith-exception-north-carolina","tag-judicial-deference","tag-legal-remedies","tag-motion-to-suppress","tag-nhtsa-standards","tag-north-carolina-criminal-law","tag-north-carolina-supreme-court","tag-objective-reasonableness","tag-police-misconduct","tag-powers-law-firm-charlotte","tag-probable-cause","tag-search-and-seizure","tag-state-v-rogers","tag-trial-court-suppression-hearing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Future of the Exclusionary Rule in North Carolina after Rogers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"State v. 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