have acted with objective good faith have right to rely upon issuing magistrate's determination that substantial basis existed for finding probable cause (State v. Murphy, Mo. App., 693 S.W.2d 255, 266).
The Congress of the United States, seeking to strengthen "good faith" exceptions passed the Exclusionary Rule Reform Act of 1995. In short, this bill states that:
Evidence which is obtained as a result of a search or seizure shall not be excluded in a proceeding in a court of the United States on the ground that the search or seizure was in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, if the search or seizure was carried out in circumstances justifying an objectively reasonable belief that it was in conformity with the Fourth Amendment. The fact that evidence was obtained pursuant to and within the scope of a warrant constitutes prima facie evidence of the existence of such circumstances. . .(Committed to the..., 1997).
What is occurring in terms of alternatives to the exclusionary rule ar
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