(US, legal, idiomatic) that has been obtained as the result of an illegal act on the part of law enforcement personnel (such as an unlawful warrantless search, or continued questioning of a witness wh
(US, legal, idiomatic) that has been obtained as the result of an illegal act on the part of law enforcement personnel (such as an unlawful warrantless search, or continued questioning of a witness who has invoked the right of counsel), and which is therefore excluded from being admitted as evidence in a trial.
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(US, legal) A doctrine which requires that evidence obtained as the result of an illegal act on the part of law enforcement personnel (such as a warrantless search, or continued questioning a witness who has invoked the right of counsel) must therefore be excluded from being admitted as evidence in a trial. This rule does not apply in civil proceedings, although statutes sometime specifically provide for exclusion of such evidence.
(Canada, criminology, slang) A device developed to identify homosexual people by measuring their physical responses to different kinds of pornography.
(puristic, otherwise, obsolete) A fruit of any kind.
Easily obtained gains; what can be obtained by readily available means.