The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that evidence obtained from an illegal search can be admissible evidence in court, and can be used to convict a man. "Good faith" of the officers overrules the 4th Amendment. This is a sad day... but nobody will notice.
High court upholds Ala. man's conviction based on illegal evidence
High court upholds Ala. man's conviction based on illegal evidence
The question for the justices in this case was whether to invoke the exclusionary rule that generally requires evidence to be suppressed if it results from a violation of a suspect's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches. In this case, the court said, the good-faith efforts of the officers overrode that concern.