State v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

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1. “Where the police have engaged in illegal conduct in obtaining evidence or where, as in Lucas , police conduct was lawful but a statute concerning privacy interests renders the evidence inadmissible, an exclusionary rule analysis is appropriate. But where, as here, there is neither conduct by police that is illegal under the statutes or constitution of either the forum or search jurisdictions, nor any statute or constitutional principle in the search jurisdiction that would make the evidence inadmissible, an exclusionary rule analysis does little to determine which state’s law should be applied.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Schuster