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good faith exception  

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  • The good faith exception to the exclusionary rule is an exception from the general rule that illegally seized evidence is inadmissible in a defendant's trial. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that despite a magistrate's error on a warrant, if the police act reasonably in executing the warrant, then the evidence seized can be admitted at trial. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; Good Faith Exception]

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