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The United States Supreme Court gives its United States v. Leon decision providing a good-faith exception from the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule against use of evidence obtained through defective warrants in criminal trials.
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Exclusionary rule
US legal rule preventing tainted evidence from being used in a court of law
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