The exclusionary rule is there to protect the defendant, and the defendant can ignore/waive its application. Even if it could be applied without regard to whet

The exclusionary rule is there to protect the defendant, and the defendant can ignore/waive its application. Even if it could be applied without regard to whether the defendant objected, it has been gutted in recent decades by our radical right-wing Supreme Court, who think illegally-obtained evidence is just dandy so long as excluding it from court proceedings wouldn't actually change the government's behavior in collecting it.