Assignment 4

Restate persuasively each of the following issues. Each issue should be redrafted twicepersuasively from the view of the opposing sides.

Under the provisions of the exclusionary rule, should evidence be suppressed when law enforcement officers executed a search warrant by unannounced entry because they saw the defendant run into the apartment upon their arrival at the scene?

Did the district court improperly exercise its discretion when it admitted into evidence photographs of the murder victim?

In light of the provisions of the hearsay rule, did the trial court improperly admit into evidence the defendant's statements to his neighbor that he would kill his wife?

Does the privileged communications statute allow the admission into evidence of the defendant's threats of physical harm to his spouse?