Ronnie L. Chatman v. James Slagle, Richard Unger

How courts have described this case

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• noting, in line with other circuits, that the reasoning which supports the use of the “inevitable discovery doctrine in criminal cases does not apply in civil rights actions”
• “[T]he reasoning which supports the use of the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule and the related inevitable discovery doctrine in criminal cases does not apply in civil rights actions.”
• allowing recovery for emotional distress after an unlawful search
• allowing recovery for emotional distress after an unlawful search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).