When the Supreme Court determined to incorporate the Fourth Amendment into the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and, at the same time, invoke the use of the exclusionary rule for evidence illegally seized, the Court did so because it
A) recognized that other alternatives to enforce the Fourth and Fourteenth amendments with respect to search and seizure had been failures as demonstrated by the fact that many states had adopted their own exclusionary rules.
B) wished to punish police for their violations of the federal constitution over the years.
C) discovered that due process had evolved and that the Constitution originally contemplated the exclusion of illegally seized evidence in both state and federal courts.
D) desired to punish prosecutors who had been willing to introduce illegally seized evidence into court and use it to convict persons whose rights had been violated.
E) wanted to exercise its general supervisory role over the states' court systems by bringing uniformity to the American scheme of justice.
A
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