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Because incentives affect behavior.

If you're allowed to use evidence from an illegal search, there's a huge incentive to keep doing illegal searches.

If you want to curtail illegal searches, then you make such searches have a worse payoff.




Why not have it that the court can use evidence that is presented to it. Those committing illegal searches should be prosecuted. Obviously the evidence of the illegal search means a conviction is highly likely. Ignoring evidence that points to the facts of a case seems futile if you wish to achieve justice.




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