Opinion ID: 4521869
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Heading: Defendant’s Fourth Amendment Right Against

Text: Unlawful Search and Seizure Defendant argues that pursuant to the Bail Reform Act of 1984 (18 U.S.C. § 3142(f)), he should have been released on bail after his arrest on the federal licensing charge. Instead, because he was denied bail and remained in custody, that detention was unlawful, and any statements he made to Smith during that detention should be suppressed under the Fourth Amendment. Even assuming defendant was erroneously denied bail, he fails to demonstrate that the remedy for any violation of the Bail Reform Act of 1984 is to suppress the subsequent confession of the defendant. (See United States v. Leon (1984) 468 U.S. 897, 916 [“exclusionary rule is designed to deter police misconduct rather than to punish the errors of judges and magistrates”]; see also Hudson v. Michigan (2006) 547 U.S. 586, 591 [“Suppression of evidence, however, has always been our last resort, not our first impulse”].) As such, we deny this claim.