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Cite as: 524 U. S. 357 (1998)

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Opinion of the Court

torney General Keeney, Deputy Solicitor General Dreeben,
and Vicki Marani.

Leonard N. Sosnov argued the cause for respondent.

With him on the brief was David Rudovsky.*

Justice Thomas delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case presents the question whether the exclusionary
rule, which generally prohibits the introduction at criminal
trial of evidence obtained in violation of a defendant’s Fourth
Amendment rights, applies in parole revocation hearings.
We hold that it does not.

I

Respondent Keith M. Scott pleaded nolo contendere to a
charge of third-degree murder and was sentenced to a prison

*Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were ﬁled for the State of
Ohio et al. by Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General of Ohio, Jeffrey
S. Sutton, State Solicitor, and Todd R. Marti, Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral, by John M. Ferren, Corporation Counsel of the District of Colum-
bia, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows:
Grant Woods of Arizona, M. Jane Brady of Delaware, Robert Butterworth
of Florida, Margery S. Bronster of Hawaii, Alan G. Lance of Idaho,
Jeff Modisett of Indiana, Tom Miller of Iowa, Carla J. Stovall of Kansas,
Richard P. Ieyoub of Louisiana, Andrew Ketterer of Maine, J. Joseph
Curran, Jr., of Maryland, Scott Harshbarger of Massachusetts, Frank J.
Kelley of Michigan, Hubert H. Humphrey III of Minnesota, Mike Moore
of Mississippi, Joseph P. Mazurek of Montana, Don Stenberg of Ne-
braska, Frankie Sue Del Papa of Nevada, Philip T. McLaughlin of
New Hampshire, Peter Verniero of New Jersey, Dennis C. Vacco of New
York, Michael F. Easley of North Carolina, Heidi Heitkamp of North Da-
kota, Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, Hardy Myers of Oregon, Jeffrey B.
Pine of Rhode Island, Mark Barnett of South Dakota, John Knox Walkup
of Tennessee, Jan Graham of Utah, Wallace J. Malley of Vermont, and
William U. Hill of Wyoming; for Americans for Effective Law Enforce-
ment, Inc., et al. by Wayne W. Schmidt, James P. Manak, Richard M.
Weintraub, and Bernard J. Farber; for the Center for the Community In-
terest by Andrew N. Vollmer and Roger L. Conner; and for the Criminal
Justice Legal Foundation by Kent S. Scheidegger.

Tracey Maclin, Steven R. Shapiro, Stefan Presser, and Lisa B. Kemler
ﬁled a brief for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. as amici curiae
urging afﬁrmance.