Legal Opinion
Arizona v. Evans
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 1, 1995No. 93-1660PublishedCited by 791 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
This case presents the question whether evidence seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment by an officer who *4acted in reliance on a police record indicating the existence of an outstanding arrest warrant — a record that is later determined to be erroneous — must be suppressed by virtue of the exclusionary rule regardless of the source of the error. The Supreme Court of Arizona held that the exclusionary rule required suppression of evidence even if the erroneous information resulted from an error committed by an employee of the office of the Clerk of Court. We disagree.
In January 1991,…
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