In ________________ (1914), the U.S. Supreme Court first held that evidence obtained through an unlawful search and seizure could not be used to convict a person of a federal crime.

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Weeks v. United States was the landmark case in 1914 in which the U.S. Supreme Court first held that evidence obtained through an unlawful search and seizure could not be used to convict a person of a federal crime. This established the exclusionary rule, which has since been applied to state and local law enforcement through the incorporation doctrine of the Fourteenth Amendment.