Tennessee Adopts a Good-Faith Exception to the Exclusionary Rule

In the Corrin Kathleen Reynolds case, the Tennessee Supreme Court has adopted a good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule. Although the Tennessee Supreme Court held that the warrantless blood draw of Ms. Reynolds violated her Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article I, section 7 of the Tennessee State Constitution right to be protected from unreasonable searches, the Court none-the-less adopted a good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule as set-forth in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Davis v. United States, 564 U.S. 229 (2011). The Tennessee Supreme Court further held that any evidence taken from a defendant and tested should not be suppressed if it was obtained under a reasonably, objectively good-faith reliance on precedent.

STATE OF TENNESSEE v. CORRIN KATHLEEN REYNOLDS
No. E2013-02309-SC-R11-CD

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