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Just to add the relevant terms of art to this post for people to google if they're interested in the legal doctrine: "exclusionary rule", "fruit of the poisonou
by mikecb 13y ago
Just to add the relevant terms of art to this post for people to google if they're interested in the legal doctrine: "exclusionary rule", "fruit of the poisonous tree", "independent source", "inevitable discovery", "attenuation", "good faith reliance", and "standing".
- tptacek 13y agoAlso "totality of the circumstances".
- pessimizer 13y agoAnd the accumulation of these concepts and precedents have added up to the current, nearly-legal, total surveillance state that we're developing into; a court decision, a failure to allow a challenge to a court decision, a secret interpretation by an executive branch counsel that is made illegal to either see or challenge but the executive operates as if it's established law... The problem isn't that there isn't a body of precedent that allows a lot of this garbage, it's that those precedents tend to be equally horrible and biased towards the powerful. edit: Just saying:) Not trying to be antagonistic. Just venting.