The Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule protects the right of people to be secure in their home against unreasonable searches and seizures. While this rule is commonly applied in criminal cases, the ...

Criminal defendants can seek enforcement of these rights through the exclusionary rule, under which evidence obtained in violation of the constitution is excluded from criminal cases. The U.S. Supreme ...

In addition, on a number of occasions, that court has held that the exclusionary rule may not be applied to discriminatory law enforcement citing, instead, civil remedies for that type of violation.

Under the inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary rule, evidence is admitted ... of the inevitable discovery doctrine to cases of a defective warrant. He first contends that this ...

The state high court ruled the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule does not apply in civil cases. Fairfax County argued successfully that it did not need to examine the constitutionality of the ...