McDermott v. Kansas

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the Attorney General who assumed charge of the investigation and acted as Chief Prosecutor and who issued the warrant was not neutral
• federal grants to private colleges and universities for construction of facilities to be used for secular purposes
• “The exclusionary rules were fashioned ‘to prevent, not to repair,’ and their target is official misconduct.”
• \it is no part of the policy underlying the Fourth ... Amendment[] to discourage citizens from aiding to the utmost of their ability in the apprehension of criminals\
• “it is no part of the policy underlying the Fourth . .. Amendment^ to discourage citizens from aiding to the utmost of their ability in the apprehension of criminals”
• warrant invalid if issued by state attorney general acting as justice of the peace

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).