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Evidence can be suppressed in a criminal case anytime that law enforcement has violated your constitutional or statutory rights. That can be things
like a Fourth Amendment violation. If they violated your right to a search and seizure, then that evidence that they were able to obtain in that search um and that seizure could be um suppressed,
which means that the state, the prosecutors are not going to be allowed to use that evidence against you.
San Antonio, TX criminal defense attorney Dayna Jones talks about when evidence can be suppressed. She clarifies that evidence may be suppressed in a criminal case when law enforcement violates a person’s constitutional or statutory rights during an investigation. She notes that one common example involves violations of the Fourth Amendment, which protects individuals against unreasonable searches and seizures. She explains that when evidence is obtained through an unlawful search or seizure, the court may suppress that evidence, preventing prosecutors from using it against the defendant during the criminal proceedings.