...illegally obtained evidence to convict a citizen: the Fourth Amendment ... is of no value, and . . . might as well be stricken from the Constitution. The...their embodiment in the fundamental law of the land. Even as the ink was drying on Day's opinion, a baying sound could be heard in the distance. It was...

...of the decision in Weeks v. United States, which declared that the police and the courts should not be aided "by the sacrifice of those great principles established by years of endeavor and suffering." The Supreme Court also would reverse state convictions if it felt that they had been obtained under...

...383, 393 (1914) The efforts of the courts and their officials to bring the guilty to punishment . . . are not to be aided by the sacrifice of those great...their embodiment in the fundamental law of the land. Keywords: Fundamental law, Guilt, Principles, Punishment Justice Harlan Fiske Stone McGuirev. United...

...any subsequent trial.96 The government's desire to catch criminals, the unanimous bench said, cannot be "aided by the sacrifice of those great principles...their embodiment in the fundamental law of the land." To condone such governmental intrusion, the justices added, would be "a manifest neglect, if not an...

...search. Protection from crime, wrote Justice William Day, "is not to be aided by the sacrifice of these great principles established by years of endeavor...their embodiment in the fundamental law of the land." 24 What is most striking about these judgments is that until 1886 American courts at all levels routinely...

...well be stricken from the Constitution. The efforts of the courts and . . . officials to bring the 94 guilty to punishment, praiseworthy as they are, are...their embodiment in the fundamental law of the land." However firmly grounded in the Constitution and the imperative of judicial integrity the exclusionary...

...corpus provisions of the Judicial Code"); Weeks v. United States, 232 US 383, 393 (1914) (describing "those great principles established by years of endeavor...embodiment in the fundamental law of the land."). 13. See Coates v. City of Cincinnati, 402 US 611, 619-20 (1971) ("The statute, in effect, is stricken...

...punishment.praiseworthy as they are, are not to be aided by the sacrifice of those great principies established by years of endeavor and suffering which...resulted in their embodiment in the fundamental law of land». 74 ByarsvsUS(1927). 75 En la primera sección de esta Enmienda se indica que «all persons...

...laws." Specifically dealing with the use of the evidence unconstitutionally seized, the Court concluded: "If letters and private documents can thus be seized...their embodiment in the fundamental law of the land." Finally, the Court in that case clearly stated that use of the seized evidence involved "a denial of...

...remedy for its violation that has teeth in it. This is the unambiguous meaning of Justice Day's words: If letters and private documents can thus be seized...their embodiment in the fundamental law of the land. After such dramatic and forceful language, Justice Day's opinion closes with a whimper. Weeks is not...