2026 GPSTC COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
Colorado - ✔✔Silver Platter doctrine was struck down
✔✔Mapp v. Ohio - ✔✔Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to state, county,
and local government.
✔✔Purpose of Exclusionary Rule - ✔✔To deter police misconduct.
✔✔Exclusionary Rule Prohibits - ✔✔1. The introduction of evidence seized during an
unlawful search
2. Testimony concerning knowledge acquired from that unlawful search
3. Evidence that flowed from the unlawful search
✔✔Exceptions to the Exclusionary Rule - ✔✔good faith, inevitable discovery, purged
taint, independent source
✔✔Independent Source Exception - ✔✔The existence of evidence which was not
illegally seized and which in fact provided an independent basis for the discovery of the
challenged evidence
✔✔Inevitable Discovery Exception - ✔✔Courts generally will not suppress evidence that
has been seized illegally if the government can establish that the evidence inevitably
would been discovered lawfully
✔✔Inevitable Discovery prosecution must show: - ✔✔1) The lawful means, which made
the discovery inevitable, were possessed by the police and 2) were actively being
pursued prior to the occurrence of the illegal conduct
✔✔Purged Taint Exception - ✔✔If the evidence that is to be introduced is so far
removed from the wrong done by the cops then it may be admissible.
ANSWERS SURE A+
Colorado - ✔✔Silver Platter doctrine was struck down
✔✔Mapp v. Ohio - ✔✔Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to state, county,
and local government.
✔✔Purpose of Exclusionary Rule - ✔✔To deter police misconduct.
✔✔Exclusionary Rule Prohibits - ✔✔1. The introduction of evidence seized during an
unlawful search
2. Testimony concerning knowledge acquired from that unlawful search
3. Evidence that flowed from the unlawful search
✔✔Exceptions to the Exclusionary Rule - ✔✔good faith, inevitable discovery, purged
taint, independent source
✔✔Independent Source Exception - ✔✔The existence of evidence which was not
illegally seized and which in fact provided an independent basis for the discovery of the
challenged evidence
✔✔Inevitable Discovery Exception - ✔✔Courts generally will not suppress evidence that
has been seized illegally if the government can establish that the evidence inevitably
would been discovered lawfully
✔✔Inevitable Discovery prosecution must show: - ✔✔1) The lawful means, which made
the discovery inevitable, were possessed by the police and 2) were actively being
pursued prior to the occurrence of the illegal conduct
✔✔Purged Taint Exception - ✔✔If the evidence that is to be introduced is so far
removed from the wrong done by the cops then it may be admissible.
