Strengthening the Sixth
  • Sixth Amendment Rights
    Access to Witnesses and Evidence Confrontation & Cross-Examination Impartial and Representative Juries Public Trial Right to Counsel Speedy Trial Jury Trial
  • About This Project
    About The JFA Grant TTA Sites How to Apply Who We Are
  • Resources
    COVID-19 & 6th Amendment Interactive Discovery Tool Disability Rights Reports
  • Apply Now

Resisting the Good-Faith Exception in Cases Involving Novel Types of Surveillance

By Laura Moraff

The Champion, May 2023--Police officers increasingly are deploying novel surveillance tools, such as cell-cite simulators, to gather evidence. Even when courts acknowledge that the surveillance was unconstitutional, often they decline to suppress the evidence based on the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule. Laura Moraff offers three arguments defense attorneys can make when challenging the application of the good-faith exception in cases involving novel search technologies.


Documents

  • Resisting the Good-Faith Exception in Cases Involving Novel Types of Surveillance, by Laura Moraff

 

Need help?

Fill out our Google form and we’ll reach out to you.

Go to Google Form

Thank you for signing up

We will be in touch soon.

Strengthening the Sixth


The Center for Justice Innovation is a training and technical assistance provider to the Bureau of Justice Assistance through the Justice for All program. The Center for Justice Innovation (the Center) and its partner are managing, enhancing, and expanding the Strengthening the Sixth website. For more information about the Center, visit www.innovatingjustice.org. The Strengthening the Sixth Website is supported by Grant No. 15PBJA-22-GK-01567-JAGJ awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office of Victims of Crimes, and the SMART Office. Points of view or opinions on this website do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse this website, including, without limitations, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided.