In 1949, in Wolf v. Colorado, the Supreme Court applied the Fourth Amendment to the states, incorporating it into the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. However, the Court refused to apply the remedy of the exclusionary rule to the states.

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In Wolf v. Colorado (1949), the Supreme Court indeed held that the Fourth Amendment was applicable to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, but it did not mandate the federal exclusionary rule as a remedy for state violations. The exclusionary rule was later applied to the states in Mapp v. Ohio (1961).

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