Word: good-faith
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...Supreme Court accepted the lower courts' determinations that both warrants were defective, but found that the police had acted in the good-faith belief that the searches they made were lawful. Justice Byron White argued that the principal justification for the exclusionary rule was to deter police misconduct. But when police have obtained what they reasonably think is a valid warrant, "there is no police illegality and thus nothing to deter," wrote White. "Penalizing the officer for the magistrate's error, rather than his own, cannot logically contribute to the deterrence of Fourth Amendment violations...
...still be suppressed. But by and large, last week's decision means that if police officers get a warrant, defense attorneys will be unable to persuade trial judges to block the use of the evidence gathered with it. The ruling did not address the question of whether this good-faith exception would apply when police act without a warrant, but the court may look at that issue soon. Dissenter William Brennan thought the majority had done enough already. "In case after case, I have witnessed the court's gradual but determined strangulation of the rule," he wrote...
...Reagan Administration, which supports a broad good-faith exception, was pleased, particularly by Justice White's statement that "the substantial costs of exclusion" outweigh "the marginal or nonexistent benefits produced by suppressing evidence" in these cases. Said Associate Attorney General D. Lowell Jensen: "It restores a better balance to the criminal justice system...
...release-four years early-stunned SWAPO officials and diplomats in London and the United Nations. Toivo made it clear that he felt he had been freed as a blatant propaganda ploy by South Africa, which has been trying to prove to U.S. diplomats that it is making good-faith efforts to negotiate with the guerrillas. Whatever the motives, Toivo's release is the latest in a series of fast-moving events that promises to alter radically the diplomatic, political and military situation in Southern Africa, long troubled by the hostile relationships between white-ruled South Africa and its black...
...utterbankruptcy of this band of terror and its complete lack of a mandate from the unfortunate Palestinian people. If Yassir Arafat's veto on negotiations can finally be removed, all parties, including the truly homeless West Bank Palestinians, will breathe easier and hopefully get down to the business of good-faith negotiations...