Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 5/11/2010

Commonwealth v. Brown

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456 Mass. 708
925 N.E.2d 845
2010 Mass. LEXIS 209

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concluding that where federal agents turned over to state law enforcement lawfully obtained evidence, there was “no unlawful conduct to deter”
“Judicial integrity ... is hardly threatened when evidence properly obtained under Federal law, in a federally run investigation, is admitted as evidence in State courts”
“One of the purposes * * * is the deterrence of police [mis] conduct * * *. Another is the protection of judicial integrity through the dissociation of the courts from unlawful conduct.”
“One of the purposes * * * is the deterrence of police [mis]conduct * * *. Another is the pro- tection of judicial integrity through the dissociation of the courts from unlawful conduct.”
“One of the purposes * * * is the deterrence of police [mis]conduct * * *. Another is the pro- tection of judicial integrity through the dissociation of the courts from unlawful conduct.”
rigidly applying exclusionary rule when its purposes are not furthered would “frustrate the public interest in the admission of evidence of criminal activity” to greater extent than “any incremental protection it might afford”

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