C.P. v. State of Indiana

VAIDIK, Chief Judge.

Case Summary

1. Many state and federal courts have applied an exception to the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule called the new-erime exception. ‘ This exception provides that notwithstanding a strong causal connection in fact between an illegal search or seizure by law enforcement and a defendant’s response, if the defendant’s response.is itself a new and distinct crime, then , evidence of the new crime is admissible notwithstanding the prior illegality. Because the purpose of the exclusionary rule—to deter police misconduct—is not advanced by suppressing evidence of a…