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Article: Exclusion of the exclusionary rule: Hudson v. Michigan.
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- Jones Law Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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INTRODUCTION
In Hudson v. Michigan, the Supreme Court of the United States once again limited the use of the exclusionary rule as a remedy for violations of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution by holding that the rule is inapplicable to violations of the knock-and-announce rule. (1) Furthermore, unlike any other time since the application of the exclusionary rule to the states, a majority of the Court strongly implied that several existing remedies are viable alternatives, or even superior alternatives, to the exclusionary rule. (2) With this favorable treatment of other remedies, the Court appears to put the exclusionary rule itself on trial ...