What is the Exclusionary Rule and how does it apply to the Fourth Amendment? Why is this rule important to protect innocent people, and what do the...

--The Exclusionary Rule

The Exclusionary Rule pertains to evidence that is gathered or attained from an illegitimate search and seizure, a method that is in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution is meant to protect the individual's privacy in its prohibition of government intrusion.

In addition, the Exclusionary Rule applies to the Fifth Amendment because it protects people from self-incrimination by prohibiting the improper attainment of statements that are self-incriminatory.
It also applies to the prohibition of evidence attained improperly. That is, if evidence that is gathered in violation of the Fourth Amendment leads police to other evidence that would not be otherwise attained, then the Exclusionary Rule applies to both the initial evidence and the related evidence, as well. [https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/exclusionary_rule]

--Why the Exclusionary Rule is disturbing

The prohibition of evidence gathered through great effort and time often is very disturbing to police because the officers may have assumed that this evidence was gleaned legally, having been unaware that the Exclusionary Rule was previously broken. Also, when the police see guilty people go free simply because of procedural mistakes (e.g., forgetting to read a suspect his/her Miranda Rights) they probably feel very frustrated that a known criminal has escaped the law.

--How police can work around the Exclusionary Rule

Although police have been known to skirt corners in their eagerness to have a criminal convicted, many work harder to attain substantive evidence legally.
Also, under what is called the good-faith exception, evidence obtained by officers who have relied upon a search warrant that turns out to be invalid is still admissible. [Arizona v. Evans, 514 U.S. 1 (1995)]

--Does the Exclusionary Rule protect individuals more or help police?

The Exclusionary Rule seems to be more protective of people as it prohibits the violation of their privacy and it ensures that police are better trained in executing the law.

Is there a word/phrase for "unperformant"?

As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...

nouns - what do you call the person who passes the trophies to the prize giver/presenter?

The person who gives out the trophies to the winners are called award presenters. So what do u call the person who passes the trophies to the presenter? Thanks!

Is 'efficate' a word in English?

I routinely hear the word "efficate" being used. For example, "The most powerful way to efficate a change in the system is to participate." I do not find entries for this word in common English dictionaries, but I do not have an unabridged dictionary. I have checked the OED (I'm not sure if it is considered unabridged), and it has no entry for "efficate". It does have an entry for "efficiate", which is used in the same way. Wordnik has an entry for "efficate" with over 1800 hits, thus providing some evidence for the frequency of use. I personally like the word and find the meaning very clear and obvious when others use it. If it's not currently an "officially documented" word, perhaps its continued use will result in it being better documented.

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