In Berumen v. State, 182 P.3d 635 (Alaska App. 2008) the Court set out factors to consider in determining whether to apply the exclusionary rule in cases where a government officer violated a statute. These factors are: (1) "whether the statutory requirement ... restriction was 'clear and widely known;'" (2) whether the statute was primarily enacted to protect the rights of individual citizens rather than to generally benefit society; (3) whether admission of the evidence would make courts accomplices to the willful disobedience of the law; and (4) whether the police have engaged in "widespread or repeated violations" of the statute.