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To: Cyber Liberty
This is all poisoned fruit

The exclusionary rule (fruit of the poisonous tree) isn't in the Constitution. In fact, under the law that the Founders established, evidence, NO MATTER HOW OBTAINED, was admissible in the Courts. One could seek separate actions against authorities if they obtained the evidence illegally, but the evidence was still admissible.

So tell me, why were the Founders wrong? Why was the Constitution as written by the Founders wrong? What made activist courts who invented the rule from the bench (as it isn't in the Constitution) right? Why did they become right only after more than a Century of the prior practice?

57 posted on 01/18/2011 8:03:48 PM PST by freedomwarrior998
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To: freedomwarrior998
So tell me, why were the Founders wrong? Why was the Constitution as written by the Founders wrong? What made activist courts who invented the rule from the bench (as it isn't in the Constitution) right? Why did they become right only after more than a Century of the prior practice?

Don't ask me. Ask an attorney who has spent years studying case law. "Why were the Founders wrong?" How about "Why do you beat your wife?" It's the same kind of snarky question I've come to expect these days.

68 posted on 01/19/2011 4:41:23 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (We conservatives will always lose elections as long as we allow the MSM to choose our candidates.)
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