Political Quotes

“I just wanted to emphasize what this bill does and what this bill does not do. This bill does not repeal legislatively the entire exclusionary rule, or anything even that comes close to it. Speaking for myself, I would not support a bill that would entirely repeal the exclusionary rule. I think the Supreme Court had a logic in saying that there was a reason to exclude evidence in certain cases that they enunciated, I thought very well, in the Mapp versus Ohio decision of 1961. Rather, we are taking an exception to the exclusionary rule which already exists. It has already been stated by the Supreme Court in the Leon case. In that case the Supreme Court said that where police officers make an honest error, a good-faith error, that in that particular case it made no sense under the theory of the exclusionary rule, under the theory of trying to motivate law enforcement logic, to suppress that evidence.”