Selectmen of Framingham v. MUN. COURT THE CT., BOSTON

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that disciplinary hearing is “not a purely civil proceeding by one private party against another”
• excluding as a matter of state law illegally obtained evidence against a police officer on the ground that \ ‘judicial integrity 1 [was] at stake in the sense that the government is seeking to take advantage of its own lawbreaking to punish the victim of that illegality.\
• “as matter of Massachusetts law, even though it may not be required by the Federal Constitution,” evidence seized in an illegal warrantless search of police officer’s home was inadmissible in administrative hearing
• civil case; evidence excluded as a matter of Massachusetts law
• civil case; evidence excluded as a matter of Massachusetts law
• violation found of both State and Federal Constitution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).