Simon is a homicide detective. While working on a case, he seized a knife from the defendant's house during an unwarranted search. His suspicion that the knife was the murder weapon was proved right by the lab results. However, because Simon failed to establish probable cause before conducting the search, the court did not allow the knife to be submitted as evidence. In the given scenario, the court most likely exercised the _____.

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The court exercised the exclusionary rule, which prevents evidence collected or analyzed in violation of the defendant's constitutional rights from being used in a court of law. Since the search was unwarranted and lacked probable cause, the evidence obtained (the knife) was not admissible in court.

Simon Is a Homicide Detective