Alaska Supreme Court· 8/20/1976

State v. Sears

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553 P.2d 907
1976 Alas. LEXIS 401

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holding that probation and parole revocation hearings are not criminal proceedings such that the state exclusionary rule applies, but noting that police misconduct which shocks the conscience may lead to invocation of the exclusionary rule
holding that exclusionary rule does not apply to probation revocation proceedings
explaining that the exclusionary rule in criminal proceedings aims to deter unconstitutional actions by law enforcement and to protect the judiciary from participating in “lawless invasions of the constitutional rights of citizens”
suppressing evidence because \contested search or seizure was 'consciously directed' toward a probationer\
\We can conceive of circumstances which would lead to the application of the exclusionary rule to revocation of probation proceedings.\
“We can conceive of circumstances which would lead to the application of the exclusionary rule to revocation of probation proceedings.”

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Judges: Boochever, Rabinowitz, Connor, Erwin, Burke

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