Justice Carter’s Dissent in People v. Gonzales: Protecting Against the 'Tyranny of Totalitarianism'
The Great Dissents of the 'Lone Dissenter': Justice Jesse W. Carter’s Twenty Tumultuous Years on the California Supreme Court, D. B. Oppenheimer, A. Brotsky, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2010
10 Pages Posted: 13 Jun 2012
Date Written: January 1, 2010
Abstract
This chapter in a book about California Supreme Court Justice Jesse Carter comments on the Justice’s dissent in a case involving use of the exclusionary rule. Justice Carter’s dissent called for the exclusion of evidence obtained in violation of the defendant’s constitutional rights. Thirteen years later, the California Supreme Court adopted this position. Justice Carter graduated from Golden Gate University School of Law in 1913.
Keywords: Justice Jesse Carter, California Supreme Court, exclusionary rule, Golden Gate University School of Law
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