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.
Moreover, the exclusionary rule only applies to governmental actors (such as police officers); evidence obtained by private parties in violation of the Fourth Amendment can still be admitted in a criminal prosecution (as long as the private parties were not acting as an instrument of the government).