....the House approved by 298 to 142 a measure to give prosecutors in Federal court more latitude in using evidence seized illegally, even evidence obtained without a search warrant.Isn't that special!Supporters of the measure said it would stop the all-too-frequent occurrence of criminals getting off on technicalities, as in cases in which evidence against them was ruled inadmissable because it was obtained with a faulty warrant.
An unlikely coalition of gun advocates and liberal Democrats blocked the House from extending the rule to agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The bureau, which has been involved in several disputed raids to seize firearms, is the scourge of gun owners....
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All right. So we get obsessed with the concept that defendants who
should have gone to prison are walking because the police are clumsy
or overzealous, and we want to create a "good faith" exception that
will assist the police in locking these defendants up by telling a
little white lie. But not the BATF! We wouldn't want them to put gun
owners away, by telling that kind of lie! No sir!