Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 4/25/2012

Commonwealth v. Henderson

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47 A.3d 797
616 Pa. 277
2012 WL 1570084
2012 Pa. LEXIS 985

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refusing to enforce an independent-source requirement under the Pennsylvania Constitution in the absence of police misconduct
refusing to enforce an independent-source requirement under the Pennsylvania Constitution in the absence of police misconduct
“[W]e are unwilling to enforce a ‘true independence’ rule in the absence of police misconduct[.]”
“The greatest difficulty in the enforcement of a prophylactic rule intended to guard individual liberties is on account of the competing value in society’s interest in identifying and punishing wrongdoers.”
“the majority has truncated the Mason/Melendez rule in a sweeping and prospective fashion so that it will henceforth apply only to those narrow subset of cases in which police conduct amounts to ‘willful misconduct’ or ‘malfeasance’”
in a case decided under Article I, Section 8, holding that the standard for application of the independent source doctrine set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court in Murray v. United States, 487 U.S. 533, 108 S.Ct. 2529, 101 L.Ed.2d 472 (1988

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Judges: Baer, Castille, Consideration, Eakin, Files, McCaffery, Melvin, Saylor, Todd

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