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.
The exclusionary rule is actually a little more extensive than how it described above. Imagine, for example, a police officer enters a home without a warrant, as in the Mapp case, and finds not only illegal material, but also an address, written on a piece of paper.