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Media Ignorance of Exclusionary Rule

Adam Liptak, writing for the Times, is arguing against the exclusionary rule.  He notes:  "In the United States, by contrast, evidence against criminal defendants is routinely and automatically suppressed where police misconduct is found." That's some statement, isn't it? In a major metropolitan public defender's office, if you win a suppression motion, someone in the office will bring cake.  It's that big of a deal.  Florence Marie Cooper, a federal judge in Pasadena, California, said: "[Granting a motion to suppress was] almost as rare as hen's teeth. I think I have done two in ten years and none in federal court."  I've written some really good suppression motions.  Good issues, good law, good facts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on July 18, 2008 (boomark / email).