Re:Bank robbery suspect wants NSA phone records for his defense
by nknighthb on Thursday June 13, 2013 @02:17AM
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The exclusionary rule is there to protect the defendant, and the defendant can ignore/waive its application.
Even if it could be applied without regard to whether the defendant objected, it has been gutted in recent decades by our radical right-wing Supreme Court, who think illegally-obtained evidence is just dandy so long as excluding it from court proceedings wouldn't actually change the government's behavior in collecting it.
Even if it could be applied without regard to whether the defendant objected, it has been gutted in recent decades by our radical right-wing Supreme Court, who think illegally-obtained evidence is just dandy so long as excluding it from court proceedings wouldn't actually change the government's behavior in collecting it.