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Jerome libin good morning everyone. I am the president of the Supreme CourtHistorical Society. I am delighted to welcome all of you here to this very Interesting Program we are having tonight. I must ask everybody to be sure your cell phones and tablets are totally off because it will interfere with the sound system in the courtroom. We are here tonight with a program we are cosponsoring with the Supreme CourtAlumni Association. We are delighted to be a cosponsor with them. The program was brought to us by several people from that organization. Let me make sure i get them right. Stephanie, matthew, elizabeth. Who really came up with the idea for the program and we are very happy to be heard to pres ....
States Supreme Court decision in mapp v. Ohio is the heart of tonights program. That decision, as you probably also know changed the way courts in this country exclude evidence or consider evidence obtained in violation of our Fourth Amendment rights. Before the decision in mapp, the remedy of excluding evidence was unpredictable at best. If a Police Officer enters or searches our home, our car, our purse, our cell phone, we expect that the judge will prohibit that evidence from being used in a prosecution against us. Motions to suppress evidence are now expected. Theyre common. Defense lawyers in the oj simpson murder trial moved to exclude both blood and hair evidence from the trial of that case. Counsel for ted kaczynski, better known as the unabomber moved to exclude evidence of an unexploded bomb, a journal in whic ....
Be sure your cell phones, tablets, whatever you have are totally off. Because otherwise, it does interfere with the sound system in the courtroom. Thank you for that. And were here tonight with a program. Were cosponsoring with the Supreme Court fellows Alumni Association. Were delighted to be a cosponsor with them. The program was brought to us by several people from that organization and ill be sure to get them right. Stephanie newbold, matthew natchezny and Elizabeth Woodcock who came up with the idea for the program. Were happy to be here. Were particularly happy to be have as our host Justice Breyer who will be speaking to you in a minute. I will tell you briefly what you dont know already about Justice ....
States Supreme Court decision in mapp v. Ohio is the heart of tonights program. That decision, as you probably also know changed the way courts in this country exclude evidence or consider evidence obtained in violation of our Fourth Amendment rights. Before the decision in mapp, the remedy of excluding evidence was unpredictable at best. If a Police Officer enters or searches our home, our car, our purse, our cell phone, we expect that the judge will prohibit that evidence from being used in a prosecution against us. Motions to suppress evidence are now expected. Theyre common. Defense lawyers in the oj simpson murder trial moved to exclude both blood and hair evidence from the trial of that case. Counsel for ted kaczynski, better known as the unabomber moved to exclude evidence of an unexploded bomb, a journal in whic ....
Be sure your cell phones, tablets, whatever you have are totally off. Because otherwise, it does interfere with the sound system in the courtroom. Thank you for that. And were here tonight with a program. Were cosponsoring with the Supreme Court fellows Alumni Association. Were delighted to be a cosponsor with them. The program was brought to us by several people from that organization and ill be sure to get them right. Stephanie newbold, matthew natchezny and Elizabeth Woodcock who came up with the idea for the program. Were happy to be here. Were particularly happy to be have as our host Justice Breyer who will be speaking to you in a minute. I will tell you briefly what you dont know already about Justice ....