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NYT on Heller: What 4th Amendment?

By ambimb

Adam Liptak’s New York Times article about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Herring v. U.S. (PDF) succintly summarizes the implications of the case. It can be read narrowly or broadly, but if read broadly, the decision spells ?the death of the exclusionary rule as a practical matter.? The article also points to the first federal case applying Herring, in which: a federal judge in New Jersey took the broader view, refusing to suppress evidence obtained from computer hard drives under a search warrant based on false information supplied by a Secret Service agent. The agent had told the judge that DVDs found during an earlier search contained child pornography. This was false: other law enforcement officials had reviewed the DVDs and had found no child pornography...continue to full post

Full post as published by Public Defender Stuff on January 31, 2009 (boomark / email).