[1] In August 1981, police in Burbank, California received a tip identifying Patsy Stewart and Armando Sanchez as drug dealers.

Second, there exists no evidence that judges and magistrates are inclined to ignore the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution and that their actions would require the ultimate sanction of exclusion.

The suppression of evidence obtained pursuant to a search warrant should be ordered only on a case-by-case basis and only in those instances where exclusion would promote the purposes of the exclusionary rule.

An officer acting in good faith and within the scope of a search warrant should not be subjected to Fourth Amendment constitutional violations.

In his concurrence, Justice Blackmun wrote, "If it should emerge from experience that, contrary to our expectations, the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule results in a material change in police compliance with the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, we shall have to reconsider what we have undertaken here."