State v. Gwinner

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• suppressing lawfully obtained evidence from another jurisdiction “would not deter our state officers from unlawful conduct, since we are not examining the conduct of state officers”
• no need to determine the scope of the Alaska constitution's protection in this area because the Alaska constitution was not implicated
• probable cause to believe vehicle would be used to transport contraband, but no exigent circumstances
• “[W]hatever the theoretical basis for invoking the [exclusionary] rule, its applicability depends upon state conduct.”
• no agency or other cooperation where Bellingham police officer relayed information to DEA that defendant would be trafficking cocaine through Seattle-Tacoma airport; no evidence that Bellingham officer requested subsequent vehicle search by DEA or knew search would occur
• state officer conveyed an informant tip to DEA, DEA conducted search of defendant's vehicle and drugs obtained can be used in state prosecution because there was no evidence that state officer requested that vehicle be searched or had knowledge that it was being searched

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).