State v. Rogers

North Carolina Supreme Court held that state search and seizure clause is in lockstep with the Fourth Amendment in recognizing a “good faith” exception to the exclusionary rule for when police reasonably rely on judicial authorization for a search despite that search later being found unlawful. The court overruled its 1988 decision that the state clause contains an exclusionary rule that does not recognize this exception, but assumed without deciding that the general rule excluding evidence from unlawful searches still arises under the state constitution.