dissents and assigns reasons.

hi respectfully dissent.

“[T]he legality of the search of a student should depend simply upon the reasonableness, under all the circumstances, of the search.” New Jersey v. T.L.O., 469 U.S. 325, 341, 105 S.Ct. 733, 83 L.Ed.2d 720 (1985). We “review the district court’s ultimate determination of Fourth Amendment reasonableness de novo.” State v. Pham, 01-2199, p. 3 (La.App. 4 Cir. 1/22/03), 839 So.2d 214, 218.

As set forth in T.L.O., 469 U.S., at 341-342, 105 S.Ct. 733 (emphasis added)

Under ordinary circumstances, a search of a student by a teacher or other school official will be “justified at its inception” when there are grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law or the rules of the school. Such a search will be permissible in its scope when the measures adopted are reasonably related to the objectives of the search and not excessively intrusive in light of the age and sex of the student and the nature of the infraction.

Requiring a student to remove his shoes in order for school officials to search for contraband cigarettes is, as the majority concedes, hardly “excessively intrusive” in today’s environment. Moreover, there is surely no indignity associated with this search which could implicate the rule of reasonableness. See \ ¿.Stafford Unified School District v. Redding, — U.S.-, 129 S.Ct. 2633, 2642, 174 L.Ed.2d 354 (2009).

Accordingly, upon de novo review for reasonableness, I would grant the application, reverse the trial court’s ruling, and allow the prosecution to introduce the al-prazolam and marijuana evidence at trial.

liOn December 14, 2009, the defendant, Demond Taylor, then an eighteen year old high school student,1 and other students were caught in a school bathroom smoking cigarettes. Recovery School District Officer Murphy Laiche searched Mr. Taylor. As part of the search, Officer Laiche required Mr. Taylor to remove his shoes so that they could be searched. Inside Mr. Taylor’s shoes Office Laiche found narcotics — alprazolam and marijuana. Mr. Taylor was arrested and charged in two separate cases: a felony case for possession of alprazolam; and a misdemeanor case for possession of marijuana, first offense. In both cases Mr. Taylor filed a motion to suppress.

On March 1, 2010, the trial court held a single motion to suppress hearing and granted both motions to suppress. On April 29, 2010, this court denied the State’s writ application seeking review of that ruling. State v. Taylor, 10-0451, unpub. (La.App. 4 Cir. 4/29/10) (J. Tobias dissenting). On June 25, 2010, the Louisiana Supreme Court granted the State’s writ application, vacated the trial l2court’s ruling, and remanded for reconsideration of the motions to suppress. State v. Taylor, 10-1107 (La.6/25/10), 38 So.3d 360. In so doing, the Supreme Court instructed the trial court to reconsider the motions under the standard enunciated in New Jersey v. T.L.O., 469 U.S. 325, 105 S.Ct. 733, 83 L.Ed.2d 720 (1985).

*924In T.L.O., the Supreme Court addressed the warrantless search of a high school student’s purse2 and concluded that in the school setting a modification of the degree of suspicion required to justify a search was warranted. T.L.O., 469 U.S. at 340, 105 S.Ct. 733. The Supreme Court held that for a search by a school official “a careful balancing of governmental and private interests suggests that the public interest is best served by a Fourth Amendment standard of reasonableness that stops short of probable cause,” Id. at 341, 105 S.Ct. 733. Simply put, “the legality of a search of a student should depend simply on the reasonableness, under all the circumstances, of the search.” Id. The Supreme Court enunciated a two-prong test for determining whether a school official’s search of a student was reasonable under all the circumstances. First, from its inception the search must be justified— “there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law or the rules of the school.” T.L.O., 469 U.S. at 342, 105 S.Ct. 733. Second, the scope of the search must be reasonable — “the measures adopted are reasonably related to the objectives of the search and |3not excessively intrusive in light of the age and sex of the student and the nature of the infraction.” Id.

On July 30, 2010, the trial court, applying the T.L.O. standard, again granted Mr. Taylor’s motions to suppress. The trial court concluded under the specific record in this matter that the search was not reasonable. The trial court reasoned that the search of Mr. Taylor’s shoes in which drugs were found was excessive and unwarranted. The trial court distinguished this case from T.L.O. as to the nature of the infraction, noting that “the defendant was discovered to be smoking a cigarette on school property and his shoes were removed in order to facilitate a search for cigarettes.” The trial court determined that it was “an impossibility for a person to store cigarettes in a shoe being wor[n] and then to later smoke those same cigarettes.” The trial court thus found the search was in violation of both T.L.O. and Safford Unified School Dist. No. 1 v. Redding, — U.S.-, 129 S.Ct. 2633, 2639, 174 L.Ed.2d 354 (2009).3 The trial court *925expressly noted that “[n]o other evidence was presented to the Trial Court which would warrant the removal of the defendant’s Ushoes and validate the search.” From that ruling, the State filed the instant writ application.

The issue presented is whether the officer who searched Mr. Taylor (Officer Laiche) had reasonable grounds for suspecting that a search of his shoes would reveal evidence that he was violating the school rules — either possessing cigarettes, smoking cigarettes, or both — and whether the search was reasonable in its scope and not excessively intrusive in light of the student’s age and sex and the nature of the infraction. T.L.O., supra. The trial court was provided with no evidence regarding the circumstances leading to the search or the nature of the search itself, beyond the bare facts. Officer Laiche never testified before the trial court. Although the arresting New Orleans Police Department officer testified, he did not provide any pertinent information except where the contraband was found and the nature of the original infraction.

Officer Laiche was apparently searching for cigarettes in Mr. Taylor’s shoes, an unlikely place to conceal a legal substance, at least in the trial court’s opinion.4 It is unclear from the record whether it is an infraction of the school rules to possess cigarettes on school property or only to smoke cigarettes. It is unknown if Mr. Taylor denied that he smoked or only denied being in possession of additional cigarettes. It is unknown whether any of the other students caught smoking in the restroom either admitted supplying the cigarettes to Mr. Taylor or possessed any. It is unknown whether the other students reported that Mr. Taylor supplied the | .^cigarettes that they were smoking. There is no testimony from Officer Laiche explaining that students are routinely caught hiding cigarettes in their shoes. There is no testimony or evidence indicating whether Officer Laiche searched the remainder of Mr. Taylor’s clothing or forced him to empty his pockets before ordering him to remove his shoes. Given all the unknown facts, it is difficult to evaluate the reasonableness of Officer Laiche’s actions under the particular circumstances of this case.

The State had the burden of proving that the warrantless search was reasonable. The gist of the State’s argument is that a search of the outer clothing— including the shoes — of a student is always reasonable, considering that such a limited intrusion was rather summarily found reasonable in Redding. The State distinguishes a search of a student’s shoes from the strip search of a thirteen-year old girl found unreasonable and thus unconstitutional in the Redding case. We decline to hold, as the State suggests, that a search of a student’s shoes is always reasonable whenever the student is found to be violating a school rule against smoking. Rather, we find it necessary to examine the facts of the particular case to make the determination of whether the T.L.O. standard was *926satisfied. Arguably, being forced to remove one’s shoes is not very intrusive in the present times when one cannot board an airplane without doing so. If that were the extent of the search and if Officer Laiche had testified and articulated his basis for the search, the search may have been reasonable under the T.L.O. standard. However, on remand, the State failed to present Officer Laiche’s testimony.

| ^Applying the appropriate T.L.O. standard and considering the lack of evidence submitted by the State, the trial court found that the search of Mr. Taylor’s shoes was not reasonable. A trial court’s findings of fact on a motion to suppress are reviewed under a clearly erroneous standard, and its ultimate determination of Fourth Amendment reasonableness is reviewed de novo. State v. Anderson, 06-1031, p. 2 (La.App. 4 Cir. 1/17/07), 949 So.2d 544, 546, writ denied, 07-0468 (La.10/12/07), 965 So.2d 399 (citing State v. Pham, 01-2199, p. 3 (La.App. 4 Cir. 1/22/03), 839 So.2d 214, 218). On the record before this court, we cannot conclude the trial court erred in ruling that that the State failed to satisfy its burden of proving that this warrantless search was reasonable.

WRIT DENIED.

BONIN, J., dissents and assigns reasons.