Please review the following videos and respond to the questions regarding the case.
Here are some videos to help you search topics related to this scenario
Video: Exclusionary Rule (3:25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8TzTPFr9UA
Read: Exclusionary Rule Article (1 page)
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-the-exclusionary-rule.html
Video: Fruit of a Poisonous Tree (2:05)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R4rLknONYk
Video: Inevitable Discovery (1:18)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkpOyQA_wWw
Video: Warrantless Search Exceptions (6:19)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdB6YawfGU8
You will need to research and use additional resources, as well.
Given the following scenario, research topics related to the Exclusionary Rule, and
answer the questions below the scenario, to the best of your ability, regarding potential
investigative actions.
You are assisting your partner in serving a drug search warrant at 123 Johnson
Street. The search warrant includes only the house, the back shed and all the area
around the house, on the suspect’s property. The warrant is for heroin and proceeds
from dealing heroin. While serving the search warrant, you find approximately $25,000
in cash under the suspect’s bed in the house. The suspect’s vehicle was parked on
Johnson Street, in front of the suspect’s neighbor’s house to the east (approximately 30
yards away from the suspect’s property).
Your partner observed the suspect’s vehicle was not locked so she opened it and
searched the passenger compartment area and the trunk for more cash. Your partner
found a receipt for a local motel, dated from last night. Your partner obtained another
search warrant for the hotel room and served it later that day.
While searching the hotel room, you find the suspect, you find 20 pounds of heroin, you
find approximately $10,000 in cash and you find evidence which indicates human
trafficking, including 4 women being held against their will.
One of the women tell your partner that her 7-year-old little boy is being held at a different
house about a mile away as a method to make the women work.
When looking at the list of evidence found as a result of these incidents below, please
explain, in legal terms, why this evidence will or will not be admissible in court to convict
the suspect of possession, with intent to sell, heroin and convict the suspect of a human
trafficking and/or kidnapping. Speak to the legal authority your partner must use to utilize
this evidence, keeping in mind “inevitable discovery,” the “plain view exception,” and
“exigent circumstances.”
- 7-year-old boy
- 20 pounds of heroin
- $25,000
- Hotel receipt
- $10,000
- Women victims and other human trafficking evidence
