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· 12/15/1969

Alston v. Follette

Citations

  • 396 U.S. 994

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  • “to grant life long immunity from investigation and prosecution simply because a violation of the Fourth Amendment first indicated to the police that a man was not the law abiding citizen he purported to be would stretch the exclusionary rule by beyond tolerable bounds”

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