Supreme Court Declines To Hear Case On Good Faith Exception To Exclusionary Rule

Mealey's (December 5, 2016, 1:42 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its Dec. 5 order list, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari for a case in which a man convicted of tax evasion, which was based on evidence obtained from a mirror image copy of his computer hard drives, had asked the court to consider whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applied to evidence obtained via a search warrant issued based on a predicate violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Stavros M. Ganias v. United States of America, No. 16-263, U.S. Sup.)....