The Supreme Court applied the Fourth Amendment to the states via the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in the 1949 case Wolf v. Colorado; it required the implementation of the exclusionary rule.

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While the Supreme Court in Wolf v. Colorado (1949) did apply the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, it did not require the implementation of the exclusionary rule at that time. The exclusionary rule was later applied to the states in Mapp v. Ohio (1961).

The Supreme Court Applied the Fourth Amendment to the States