Written Assignment 3

The exclusionary rule, grounded in the 4^th Amendment of the Bill of Rights, forbids the use of any evidence in a criminal trial that was gained in an unconstitutional manner. The Supreme Court ruled in Wolf v. Colorado (1949), that states could not be compelled to follow the exclusionary rule. This decision was reversed 12 years later in the Mapp v. Ohio decision, which found that items seized in a blatantly illegal search. After reading or listening to the arguments, what do you think compelled a majority of the justices to overturn Wolf? Why did you reach this conclusion? This assignment, machine-produced, double-spaced, with conventional 1 inch margins and double-spaced, is due at the beginning of class on Thursday, February 9.