Exclusionary Rule Quotes

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Experience has taught me that privacy truly is the touchstone of our criminal justice system.

There is no drug exception to the Constitution.

The Constitution defends all of us against unreasonable search and seizure. What constitutes reasonableness depends upon threat.

It would not be permissible for you to build a home and not let law enforcement in if they had a search warrant. If they think there's a crime ongoing, they go to court and get a warrant, and they're permitted to come in your home under the Fourth Amendment.

It is monstrous that courts should aid or abet the law-breaking police officer.

Let the punishment fit the crime. Noxiae poena par esto.

Court rules do not cause crime.

An arrest is not justified by what the subsequent search discloses.

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

Intricate and involved rules of procedure have become the refuge of both big and little criminals. There is a belief abroad that by invoking technicalities, subterfuge, and delay, the ends of justice may be thwarted by those who can pay the cost.

No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood