Legal Opinion
Davis v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 16, 2011No. 09-11328PublishedCited by 1,186 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION OF THE COURT
[564 U.S. 231]
2Opinion of the Court · AlitoJustice Alito
The Fourth Amendment protects the right to be free from “unreasonable searches and seizures,” but it is silent about how this right is to be enforced. To supplement the bare text, this Court created the exclusionary rule, a deterrent
[564 U.S. 232]
sanction that bars the prosecution from introducing evidence obtained by way of a Fourth Amendment violation. The question here is whether to apply this sanction when the police conduct a search in compliance with binding precedent that is later overruled. Because suppression would do nothing to deter police…
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