FROM ISSUE NUMBER 96 - SUMMER 1989 GO TO TABLE OF CONTENTS
The paradox of the exclusionary rule
IN 1914, one hundred and twenty-three years after the ratification of the Fourth Amendment, the Supreme Court declared that the Amendment was “of no value” if unconstitutionally seized evidence could be used in federal courts. The Court held all such evidence inadmissible.
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