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Arizona v. Evans

Supreme Court of the United States

514 U.S. 1 (1995)

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Evans (defendant) was stopped for driving the wrong way and arrested on an outstanding warrant the officer found in the police computer; a search incident to arrest turned up marijuana. It later emerged that the warrant had already been quashed, and it appeared in the system only because of a court employee's clerical error.

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Whether the exclusionary rule applies to evidence obtained from an arrest based on a warrant that appeared valid due to a court clerk's error.

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