1. Good Faith Exception
... that a reasonable officer could have made a mistake. If however there is an ulterior motive the exception does not apply. United States v. Leon was the first case in which the "good faith exception" was accepted into constitutional law. Acting on the information from an informant Burbank, CA police department launched an investigation in drug-trafficking. With observations of the respondents Officer Rombach ... the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule should not prevent an officer from using the evidence found in a case where the officer was using reasonable reliance on a search warrant t...
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