Practice question
Does Marti automatically apply the constitutional search exclusion rule to every search by a purely private person with no State participation?
- Yes, private and governmental action are always identical.
- No.
- Yes, all privately discovered evidence is constitutionally inadmissible.
- Yes, the private person necessarily becomes a police officer.
- Yes, a later prosecution alone makes every earlier private act governmental.
Legal references
- People v. Marti, G.R. No. 81561, January 18, 1991, MAIN decision, genuinely private search without State intervention: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1991/jan1991/gr_81561_1991.html
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