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High Court Upholds Conviction Despite Faulty Warrant
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society —
... rule does not apply,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. The case involved Bennie Dean Herring, who was arrested in one Alabama county based on incorrect information from another county’s sheriff’s department. When he was arrested on a warrant that had been withdrawn, police found drugs and a weapon in his car. Herring’s attorneys argued that the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule barred the evidence from use at trial. The New York Times reported that the justices in the majority concluded that the police errors in ...
Wednesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... . * This 5-4 ruling will have a significant impact: "The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of an Alabama man on drug and weapons charges, emphasizing that the exclusionary rule, which generally bars prosecutors from using evidence obtained by the police through improper searches, is far from absolute." * Rod Blagojevich was ...
