55 Va. App. 275 - Testa v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
September 2015
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Yarborough v. Alvarado · Georgia v. Randolph · 7 Va. App. 10 - Blain v. Commonwealth · United States v. Sprinkle
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“'if a person engages in new and distinct criminal acts' during an allegedly unlawful police encounter, ‘the exclusionary rule does not apply, and evidence of the events constituting the new criminal activity, including testimony describing the defendant's own actions, is admissible.’ ” Testa v. Commonwealth, 55 Va.App. 275, 283 , 685 S.E.2d 213, 216-17 (2009) (quoting Brown v. City of Danville, 44 Va.App. 586, 600 , 606 S.E.2d 523, 530 (2004)); see also United States v. Sprinkle, 106 F.3d 613, 619 (4th Cir.1997) (holding that the exclusionary rule is inapplicable to”
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