Ball v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “`disingenuous, after having gone to [a district judge] with the paltry showing seen here, to suggest, as the [State] suggests, that at bottom it was the [district judge] who made the error and the search and seizure are insulated because the officer's reliance on that error was objectively reasonable.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Ex Parte Green