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Later the exclusionary rule was modified by the Supreme Court case
United States v. Leon by creating the “good faith” exception. In Leon, the
Court acknowledged that inadvertent error (on the part of law enforcement) does not negate the admissibility of evidence otherwise seized
properly. Within the good faith exception, “[m]ost states permit the
use of evidence obtained under a search warrant that has a technical
error unknown to the law officers executing the warrant” (Gardner and
Anderson 414).

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