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  2. Good-faith exception - Wikipedia

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    The good-faith exception has been subject to significant criticism from civil rights groups and legal scholars. The American Civil Liberties Union has claimed that the exception enables dubious searches and limits the ability of defendants to contest the legality of a search. [ 21 ]

  3. United States v. Leon - Wikipedia

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    An officer acting in good faith and within the scope of a search warrant should not be subjected to Fourth Amendment constitutional violations. It is the magistrate’s or judge’s responsibility to ascertain whether the warrant is supported by sufficient information to support probable cause.

  4. Good faith (law) - Wikipedia

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    In U.S. law, the legal concept of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing arose in the mid-19th century because contemporary legal interpretations of “the express contract language, interpreted strictly, appeared to grant unbridled discretion to one of the parties”. [1]

  5. Exclusionary rule - Wikipedia

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    Good faith exception: If police officers acting in good faith (bona fides) rely upon a defective search warrant, then the evidence acquired may still be used under the good-faith exception. Independent source doctrine : If police obtain evidence illegally, but also obtain the same evidence through an independent, legal means, the evidence is ...

  6. Herring v. United States - Wikipedia

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    I don't see it as suggesting a general good faith exception for police conduct ... [which is] why the dissenters didn't sound the alarm...." [14] Around two weeks later, The New York Times' Adam Liptak expressed concern that the decision was a step towards overruling Mapp. [15]

  7. Ignorantia juris non excusat - Wikipedia

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    For example, under U.S. Federal criminal tax law, the element of willfulness required by the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code has been ruled by the courts to correspond to a "voluntary, intentional violation of a known legal duty" under which an "actual good faith belief based on a misunderstanding caused by the complexity of the tax law ...

  8. NYC climate law rule proposal would give building owners ...

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    Building owners who make “good faith” effort to comply with New York City’s climate law would get some slack under proposed rules that environmentalists say will “gut” a city push to ...

  9. United States v. Davis (2014) - Wikipedia

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    The obtaining of that data without a warrant is a Fourth Amendment violation." Despite finding that the evidence was obtained in an unconstitutional manner, the court denied "appellant's motion to exclude the fruits of that electronic search and seizure under the 'good faith' exception to the exclusionary rule recognized in United