{"id":64808,"date":"2026-09-16T11:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64808"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:06:40","slug":"ca3-exclusionary-rule-only-applies-to-blameworthy-conduct-not-isolated-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64808","title":{"rendered":"CA3: Exclusionary rule only applies to blameworthy conduct, not isolated mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Exclusionary rule only applies to blameworthy conduct, not isolated mistakes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/252118po.pdf\">United States v. Walker<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 28223 (3d Cir. Sep. 15, 2026):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Suppressing evidence is a grave measure designed to deter blameworthy misconduct, not to second-guess a police officer&#8217;s mistakes. An officer applied for a warrant to track and secure a box of drugs scheduled for delivery. He got an order letting him track the box, but not secure it anywhere other than the mailing address, Apartment 2. But after Davone Walker brought the box into Apartment 1, the officer went in to secure it there. Walker wants to use this discrepancy to exclude the drugs from his criminal trial. Yet suppression is for misconduct, not mistakes. Because the officer made at most an isolated mistake, the drugs are admissible, and we will AFFIRM the denial of Walker&#8217;s suppression motions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusionary rule only applies to blameworthy conduct, not isolated mistakes. United States v. Walker, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 28223 (3d Cir. Sep. 15, 2026):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exclusionary-rule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64809,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64808\/revisions\/64809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}