NY4: Exclusionary rule wouldn’t be applied to probation search during a time of uncertainty in the law where law now settled; no deterrence possible

The exclusionary rule would not be applied to what turned out to be an illegal probation search at a time when the law was unclear. There is no deterrent effect to be gained by applying the exclusionary rule when other such searches were also going on when the law was unsettled. Now it is. People v Lloyd, 2019 NY Slip Op 05855, 2019 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6005 (4th Dept. July. 31, 2019).

The use of force against plaintiff during execution of a search warrant in her house was reasonable because she wasn’t responding to officers’ requests to sit down during the search and not get in the way. It was reasonable to fear her cluttered house could have concealed a weapon. Bishop v. Bosquez, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 22694 (7th Cir. July 31, 2019).*

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