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I’m delighted to report that Richard Re will be guest-blogging next week about the exclusionary rule, and in particular about his forthcoming Harvard Law Review article on the subject ...
I think the case is interesting because it demonstrates a view of the exclusionary rule that I haven’t seen in a while. By the 1980s, after Warren Court revolution, the Supreme Court had a ...
A constitutional concept that increasingly seems to contradict its own label, the “exclusionary rule,” is fading further as a restraint on police evidence-gathering. A solid majority on the Supreme ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court pulled back on the “exclusionary rule” Wednesday and ruled that evidence from an illegal search can be used if a police officer made an innocent mistake.
Stephen Chapman writes that ”the exclusionary rule is unpopular with the public because it sometimes allows the guilty to go free.” It is not the injustice of the criminal going unpunished ...
His scholarly work focuses on the Fourth Amendment and computer-related crimes. Justice Antonin Scalia was a strong opponent of the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule. When the Court heard a case ...
Like the "knock and announce" rule for police entry, the exclusionary rule, which requires dismissal of improperly obtained evidence in a criminal case, is not in the Constitution. As Amar notes ...
United States, the Supreme Court announced the far-reaching legal doctrine that has come to be known as the exclusionary rule, which generally bars the use in court of such illegally obtained ...
Under the inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary rule, evidence is admitted, even if it's the fruit of an unconstitutional search, if the government would have discovered the evidence ...
Professors Carolyn Long and Renee Hutchins talk about the application of the Exclusionary Rule. Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos. *This text was compiled from ...