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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 ...
I’m delighted to be guest-blogging about my forthcoming article, “The Due Process Exclusionary Rule.” Many thanks to Eugene and the other conspirators for inviting me! In this first post ...
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.
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 ...
Whether the exclusionary rule requires the suppression of evidence seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment when the Fourth Amendment violation was based on misinformation sent by law enforcement ...
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 ...
In this case, the Virginia Supreme Court is considering whether the U.S. Constitution and/or the Virginia Constitution require the exclusionary rule—which protects people from unconstitutional ...
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 ...
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 ...