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John Conyers: “What the gentleman from Pennsylvania has proved here today is he cannot tell us why he would change the existing law…”

On the recordFebruary 7, 1995
What the gentleman from Pennsylvania has proved here today is he cannot tell us why he would change the existing law, which I am codifying by amendment in the Leon case. He does not have an example, because we have already given dozens of exceptions to the exclusionary rule and there is not one he can even make up now on the floor or ever that would justify what they are trying to do to the exclusionary rule.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

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Debating changes to the exclusionary rule in relation to the Leon case.

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