The Chief Justice is correct in suggesting that municipal courts “keep rights in mind” when dispensing justice. I would go further and suggest that while the majority of municipal court judges do keep in mind individual rights of our citizenry when dispensing justice, our Supreme Court does not.

I am dismayed at the lack of respect for individual rights in the dispensing of justice displayed in the recent decision of State v. Zalcberg, decided on March 27, in which the Chief Justice—joined with other members of our high court—decided to dispense with the warrant requirement for the taking of blood because of the “exigencies of the case” and the high stakes of the facts surrounding the matter, despite the lower court’s finding that no such factual exigency existed.

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