Legal Opinion
United States v. Leon
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided September 18, 1984No. 82-1771PublishedCited by 7,817 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
This ease presents the question whether the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule should be modified so as not to bar the use in the prosecution’s case in chief of evidence obtained by officers acting in reasonable reliance on a search warrant issued by a detached and neutral magistrate but ultimately found to be unsupported by probable cause. To resolve this question, we must consider once again the tension between the sometimes competing goals of, on the one hand, deterring official misconduct and removing inducements to unreasonable invasions of privacy and, on the other, establishing…
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