Farrell v. U.S. Army Brigadier Gen.

HUNTER, JR., ROBERT N., Judge, Dissenting.

The Fourth Amendment protects the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, house, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures ... and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause...." U.S. Const. amend. IV. Our State Constitution protects these same rights by prohibiting general warrants, which "are dangerous to liberty" N.C. Const. art. I, section 20. To protect these rights, both courts created the exclusionary rule, making "all evidence seized in violation of the Constitution ... inadmissible in a State court as a…