The following excerpt is from United States ex rel. Flemings v. Chafee, 458 F.2d 544 (2nd Cir. 1972):
13 Mapp, overruling Wolf v. Colorado, 338 U.S. 25, 69 S.Ct. 1359, 93 L.Ed. 1782 (1949), held that the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment required state courts to exclude evidence seized in violation of the search and seizure provisions of the fourth amendment.
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