Should the Exclusionary Rule be Abolished? John Doe University of Phoenix Criminal Procedure CJA350 Mr. Instructor Feb 07‚ 2006 Should the Exclusionary Rule be Abolished? Does the exclusionary rule protect the guilty? For years people have argued if the exclusionary rule is significantly helping the rather obvious criminal. By abolishing the exclusionary rule some people fear the whole purpose of the fourth amendment would be violated by using evidence attained illegally. If the proper
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systems by which police or other authorities and their agents‚ who suspect that a crime has been committed‚ do a search of a person’s property and confiscate any relevant evidence to the crime. the exclusionary rule is a rule that allows for the exclusion or suppression of evidence. This role prevents the government from using evidence in trial which was to be derived from an illegal search and seizure arrestor interrogation. There are several exceptions to the exclusionary rule that I have found
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I am usually one of those people that believes in the law and that believes that rules are in place for a reason. I am well aware of the Exclusionary Rule and the Poisonous Fruit Doctrine however‚ these are two things that I don’t believe in. According to the Exclusionary Rule‚ any evidence obtained without a warrant or Constitutional justification needs to be excluded from any case records. (FindLaw‚ 2017). While the Poisonous Fruit Doctrine indicates that the court may exclude not only the evidence
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I find that the evidence would still be valid based on the “good faith” exception to the exclusionary rule. The good faith exception states “that If officers had a reasonable‚ good-faith belief that they were acting per legal authority‚ such as by relying on a search warrant that is later found to have been legally defective‚ the illegally seized evidence is admissible” (Busby‚ 2009). The good faith exception was established by a 6-3 U.S Supreme court decision in the United States v. Leon 468 U
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A major case that helped further clarify the exclusionary rule in the justice system was the Davis v. The United States. The case regarded the admissibility of evidence obtained through unconstitutional searches and seizures derived from the fourth amendment. The implications for law enforcement and prosecution were also clarified by the exclusionary rule during the trial. Case Background Willie Davis was stopped by officers at a routine vehicle stop where he was asked for his name and decided to
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Should the exclusionary rule be abolished? My answer to that is no. The exclusionary rule is one of the fundamental ways the rights of the all people are protected. Mainly the rule is to protect you from police power. If the exclusionary rule was abolished you will more than likely see police brutality on the rise. Officer’s‚ Detectives‚ etc will cut corners and otherwise ignore the basic rights of the people they serve. If the rule was abolished we will see sometimes innocent people put in
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The Exclusionary Rule was put in place to prevent the government from using evidence that was gathered illegally in violation of the United States Constitution. Evidence that was obtained from an unreasonable search and seizure that violates the Fourth Amendment or Fifth Amendment are found admissible in court under the Exclusionary Rule‚ if no exceptions apply. The establishment of the Exclusionary Rule was due to the rulings of several Supreme Court cases where it was found unconstitutional for
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a warrant could then be used to convict a person on any number of charges. In the years since the exclusionary rule was enacted‚ the Supreme Court has loosened some of the restrictions that were originally imposed by the rule. They have created exceptions to the exclusionary rule that allow for certain specific instances of warrantless searches. Two of the major exceptions to the exclusionary rule are the good faith exception and the inevitable discovery exception. The good faith exception provides
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Police and the Rule of Law Police and the Law of Rule is a key component of the Fourth Amendment which controls law enforcement officials. The Fourth Amendment contains two parts: the reasonableness clause and the warrants clause. Each clause is independent because a search can be reasonable without a warrant‚ but if a warrant is required‚ certain steps must be taken. There are 3 requirements that must be met before a warrant can be secured. There are 6 general rules for serving
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The Exclusionary Rule and Civil Liability Mark McCormick Kaplan University CJ-299 Professor Donna Yohman August 30‚ 2014 In 1914‚ Weeks v. United States was decided by the Supreme Court. In Weeks‚ the Court made a landmark decision relating to illegal search and seizure by law enforcement called the Exclusionary Rule. The Exclusionary Rule provided that evidence “illegally seized by law enforcement officers in violation of a suspect’s right to be free from unreasonable
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