Horne v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• Court refused to apply the exclusionary rule where defendant’s detention violated state law, but the detention was otherwise constitutional
• statutory violation warrants suppression only where defendant can show prejudice attributable to unreasonable delay
• “[o]nly in a situation where the delay in taking a suspect before a magistrate resulted in the loss of exculpatory evidence have we concluded that the defendant’s due process rights were violated and reversed his conviction”
• evidence developed during unlawful detention admissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).