1.0 link 133253 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-robinson/yet-another-reason-to-fea_b_133253.html There are plenty of reasons to fear the possibility of a McCain-appointed Supreme Court justices, but the future of the exclusionary rule is one we don't discuss much. The exclusionary rule is the legal principle that evidence obtained through improper means cannot be used against a defendant. So anything that turns up during an illegal search is worthless in court. It's a pretty basic concept, although surprisingly it wasn't actually explicitly mandated by the Supreme Court until 1961, in...

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