In this week’s reading, the textbook discusses exceptions to the warrant requirement. The Supreme Court has held that a good faith belief on the part of the police that a warrant is valid is enough to sustain a warrantless search. As a citizen, you are expected to know the law. Ignorance of the law is no excuse to a charge of criminal behavior. What if it is the police who make a mistake of law? If a police officer pulls someone over because the officer is mistaken about the law (i.e., you have a broken tail light and the police officer believes that this is a violation of law and it is not), should the result of that search be admissible?
