The First Appellate District affirmed a judgment. The court held that where officers reasonably relied on well-established law in searching a vehicle after the driver’s arrest, the good faith exception to the requirement for a search warrant rendered the evidence seized in that search admissible, even though subsequent case law, applicable retroactively, invalidated the search.
Michael Henry was stopped for a traffic infraction. He fled, with officers in pursuit, and was eventually apprehended. While the chase was underway, one officer remained with Henry’s locked car and called a tow truck. When the tow truck arrived and opened the car, an officer searched it and found a handgun in the center console.
