exclusionary rule

(noun)

A legal principle in the United States, under constitutional law, which holds that evidence collected or analyzed in violation of the defendant's constitutional rights is sometimes inadmissible for a criminal prosecution in a court of law.

Related Terms

  • constitutional right
  • right to counsel

Examples of exclusionary rule in the following topics:

  • The Exclusionary Rule

    • The exclusionary rule holds that evidence collected in violation of the defendant's rights is sometimes inadmissible.
    • Supreme Court announced a strong version of the exclusionary rule in the case of Weeks v.
    • The exclusionary rule furthermore applies to violations of the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees the right to counsel.
    • The exclusionary rule is not applicable to aliens residing outside of U.S. borders.
    • The exclusionary rule as it has developed in the U.S. has been long criticized, even by respected jurists and commentators.
  • Chinese Exclusion and Chinese Rights

    • Volpp argues that the "Chinese Exclusion Act" is a misnomer, in that it is assumed to be the starting point of Chinese exclusionary laws in the United States.
    • In most of these cases, the courts ruled in favor of the petitioner.
    • This ruling triggered a brief boycott of U.S. goods in China.
  • Conclusion: The Successes and Failures of Progressivism

    • State legislatures passed restrictive laws or constitutions that made voter registration and election rules more complicated.
    • Civil Rights and Progressive Reforms were thus mostly exclusionary projects that had little real influence on each other in the early twentieth century.
  • Regulation and Antitrust Policy

    • Typically, this behavior involves a firm using unreasonable, unlawful, and exclusionary practices that are intended to secure, for that firm, control of a market.
  • The Limits of Progressivism

    • Civil Rights and Progressive Reforms were thus mostly exclusionary projects that had little real influence on each other in the early twentieth century.
  • Introduction to Biomedical Therapies

    • Placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials, using strict exclusionary criteria when selecting subjects, have traditionally been used to study a psychiatric medication's efficacy (i.e., the ability of the medication to treat the condition better than placebo under controlled conditions).
  • Face

    • Hackerdom in general, and free software culture in particular, tends to view title displays as exclusionary and a sign of insecurity.
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