Although the U.S. Supreme Court speaks of the need for straightforward, bright-line rules to govern criminal procedure, its decisions often do not yield the desired results. This is not a criticism of ...

The Trump Administration's Education Department defended the exclusionary rule as consistent with the department's focus on the importance of cross-examination and as being simple to apply. Critics of ...

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 ...

The vote came during consideration of the "Exclusionary Rule Reform Act of 1995," a law that would allow police to search your home without a warrant so long as they acted in "good faith," and was ...

In this case, the Minnesota Supreme Court is considering the scope of a crucial doctrine that protects criminal defendants from being convicted based on evidence obtained in violation of their ...