Want this question answered?
exclusionary rule
Supreme Court cases diminished the scope of the exclusionary rule?
chimel v. califorina
Weeks v. US, (1914) was the case that established the "exclusionary rule," preventing evidence gathered through illegal or unreasonable search and seizure of a suspect from being used to prosecute the suspect in court. This Fourth Amendment Search and Seizure protection originally applied only to federal casesbecause the Supreme Court hadn't incorporated much of the Bill of Rights to the States in 1914.Case Citation:Weeks v. US, 232 US 383 (1914)
By statute.
Marbury v. Madison is the Supreme Court case that established the precedent of judicial review. John Marshall was the Chief Justice of the court.
There were two famous US Supreme Court cases on this topic, although most people only remember the more recent one, Mapp v. Ohio, (1961). In Mapp, the Warren Court applied the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule developed in Weeks v. US, (1914), to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause. The Exclusionary Rule prevents illegally obtained evidence from being used to convict a defendant.Weeks v. US, 232 US 383 (1914) was the case that established the "exclusionary rule," preventing evidence gathered through illegal or unreasonable search and seizure of a suspect from being used to prosecute the suspect in court. This Fourth Amendment Search and Seizure protection originally applied only to federal cases because the Supreme Court hadn't incorporated much of the Bill of Rights to the States in 1914.In Wolf v. Colorado, 338 US 25 (1949), the Supreme Court decided the exclusionary rule didn't apply to the states, but the Warren Court reversed this stance in Mapp v. Ohio,367 US 643 (1961), holding "All evidence obtained by searches and seizures in violation of the Federal Constitution is inadmissible in a criminal trial in a state court."For more information, see Related Questions, below.
Supreme
Precedent
That was not used in this case.
The Supreme Court ruling that applied the principles developed in Weeks v. US to trials in state courts is Mapp v. Ohio (1961). In this case, the Court held that the exclusionary rule, which prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence in court, is applicable to state criminal trials through the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause. This ruling expanded the protections of the Fourth Amendment to the states.
Mapp v. Ohio was a landmark US Supreme Court case that incorporated (applied) the Fourth Amendment to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause. The reasoning in the case was similar to that of its forerunner, Weeks v. US, (1914), which established the "exclusionary rule" that now binds all courts to abide by specific Fourth Amendment protections.Case Citation:Mapp v. Ohio, 367 US 643 (1961)For more information, see Related Questions, below.