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There are two prin-cipal reasons for the deviation from that traditional rule: (i) to policethe law enforcement agencies by excluding evidence illegally ob-tained, and (2) to protect fully the civil rights of a defendant fromany infringement.It is apparent that the first basis is not applicable in the Lebelcase.
Motions to suppress evidence are most common in Fourth Amendment, search-and-seizure cases. Defendants can file them in other contexts, tooâfor example, where eyewitness identification is involved. A defendant might argue that the identification procedure was so unfair that the judge should bar the prosecution from mentioning its results at trial.