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John Conyers: “First of all I am always pleased to receive congratulations from my colleague from Pennsylvania with whom I have worked…”

On the recordFebruary 7, 1995
First of all I am always pleased to receive congratulations from my colleague from Pennsylvania with whom I have worked on these matters across the years. May I remind the gentleman that intermediate court decisions are secondary at best to Supreme Court decisions on this subject. And that anybody that is caught red-handed would be brought within the exclusion to the exclusionary rule, known in the Supreme Court case as Washington versus Chrisman, where anything that happens criminally in plain view vitiates the need for any kind of a warrant. Finally, could the gentleman give me one example where H.R. 666 would operate in a different way from the amendment that I have before the gentleman and which is current law?
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Discussing legal standards related to the exclusionary rule and H.R. 666.

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