Adams v. Com.
Supreme Court of Virginia
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY Justice CYNTHIA D. KINSER.
A jury convicted Germaine Delano Adams of the second-degree murder of Christopher Junior Hairston and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. The primary issue in this appeal concerns the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule as set forth in United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 , 104 S.Ct. 3405 , 82 L.Ed.2d 677 (1984), and whether it applies in this case. Because we conclude that a reasonably well trained police officer would not have known that a search of Adams' residence was illegal despite a magistrate's issuance of a search warrant,…
Also in this document: Dissent · Koontz; Dissent · Koontz.
2Cases cited50 opinions
- Anderson v. CreightonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
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- United States v. VentrescaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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