Change is hard.However,inertia begets inertia.In China,the time is ripe for a change in the context of exclusionary rule.The exclusionary rule is an idea whose time has come.Lying at the heart of this thesis is a wish to establish the suitable exclusionary rule for China.The judicial response to the illegally obtained evidence should be based on the need to uphold the rule of law.The evidence obtained by illegal methods was excluded,not because they have no weight,but because the police have behaved illegally.The admission of the evidence would bring the administration of justice into disrepute.Chinese judges,however,often condone procedural violations by the police which would trigger the exclusionary rule as long as evidence indicates the defendant’s guilt.
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