Satterfield Was a Victim of Congenital Heart Defect. Bob Satterfield, a member of the Notre Dame national championship football team who collapsed and died suddenly at a nightclub in January, was a victim of a congenital heart defect, a medical examiner announced Friday.
The exclusionary rule is a legal principle in the United States, under constitutional law, which holds that evidence collected or analyzed in violation of the defendant's constitutional rights is sometimes inadmissible for a criminal prosecution in a court of law.
Established exclusionary rule on a state level (illegally obtained evidence will be exculded) 1  Weeks v. United States (1914) had developed exclusionary rule on a federal level. 2  This decision was controversial because virtually all violent crime falls under the jurisdiction of the states.