What is the test for suppressing physical evidence at trial for a Fourth Amendment violation?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. McNeill, F068889 (Cal. App. 2015):
Were we to conclude the physical evidence used at trial should have been suppressed because of a Fourth Amendment violation, we would find the error to be harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. (See Chapman v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 18,
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