The silver platter doctrine allows evidence collected by members of the public and presented to law enforcement to be admitted as evidence.
The silver platter doctrine states that evidence handed over to federal authorities by state authorities will not be suppressed even if it was obtained through an unlawful search took place some time ago.
Allowing federal authorities to use evidence that would have been suppressed in state courts served to weaken the federalism principle upon which the silver platter doctrine itself was founded as well as the exclusionary policies of those states.
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