In Defense of the Search and Seizure Exclusionary Rule (Law and Truth - The Twenty-First Annual National Student Federalist Society Symposium on Law and Public Policy - 2002)

think Dean Pye's advice about casebook writing was sound,6 and what he had to say also applies to discussions and debates about such issues as the search and seizure exclusionary rule. We cannot (at least we should not) begin with Mapp v. Ohio. We need a prelude.