The state Superior Court has granted a full discharge to a man and woman whose home was raided unlawfully by State Police officers.
The court, sitting en banc, reversed the decision of a Snyder County judge and a previous three-judge panel, both of which had ruled that evidence of drugs found in the home was properly admitted at trial under the “independent source” rule, a Pennsylvania Supreme Court-endorsed supplement falling under the inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary rule against tainted evidence.
