Truth or Legality: The Limits on the Laundering of Illegally Gathered Evidence in a State Under the Rule of Law (Verdad o Legalidad: Los Límites del Blanqueo de Pruebas Ilegalmente Recogidas en un Estado de Derecho) (Spanish)

Authors

Stephen C. Thaman, Saint Louis University School of Law

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2009

Keywords

Exclusionary Rules, Right to Silence, Right to Privacy

Abstract

This paper discusses the tension between the constitutional rights to silence and to privacy and the important goal of criminal procedure to ascertain the truth. It traces exclusionary rules from the inquisitorial rules relating to nullities, to modern constitutional, statutory and jurisprudential rules for excluding illegally gathered evidence.

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Recommended Citation

Thaman, Stephen C., Truth or Legality: The Limits on the Laundering of Illegally Gathered Evidence in a State Under the Rule of Law (Verdad o Legalidad: Los Límites del Blanqueo de Pruebas Ilegalmente Recogidas en un Estado de Derecho) (Spanish) (September 1, 2009). Derecho Penal y Criminologia, No. 89, pp. 113-145, September 2009.