Supreme Court of New Jersey· 12/13/2012

State v. Shaw

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213 N.J. 398
64 A.3d 499
2012 WL 6199305
2012 N.J. LEXIS 1263

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holding that, in light of “the high price exacted by suppressing evidence,” suppression is unwarranted where law enforcement obtains “evidence that is sufficiently independent of the illegal conduct”
holding that, in light of “the high price exacted by suppressing evidence,” suppression is unwarranted where law enforcement obtains “evidence that is 1 sufficiently independent of the illegal conduct”
noting one of two purposes of exclusionary rule “is to deter future unlawful police conduct” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)
observing \an officer's hunch or subjective good faith — even if correct in the end — cannot justify an investigatory stop or detention\
affirming reversal of trial court's denial of motion to suppress evidence seized during stop, where defendant's only similarity to fugitive police sought was that he was \a black male\
\A random stop based on nothing more than a non-particularized racial description of the person sought is especially subject to abuse.\

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