Topic > Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule - 791

A great injustice has been done. A violation of the Constitution of our country that guarantees our citizens their rights is great. The main points made in the article were about the creation and expectation of the exclusionary rule. The exclusionary rule is important to keep our rights interacted as originally intended by our founding fathers. The fact that the government can enter your home and extract any evidence without the proper authority and warrant is not only a violation of privacy but a direct violation of our Fourth Amendment rights. I believe these are the main points because the evidence recovered by federal agents was the only evidence used to convict Weeks. Weeks was guilty, of course he was, but due to federal authorities' failure to follow proper procedures, the evidence along with the case was thrown out the window. The exclusion rule is a double-edged sword. It can protect citizens from government overreach, but it can also harm the government because if the process is not conducted “by the numbers” you risk having the entire case dismissed or