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Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon

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31: 277:, the Court held that states could admit evidence against defendants even if the evidence was obtained in violation of the Vienna Convention. The Court reasoned that the exclusionary rule is idiosyncratic to American jurisprudence and so could not have been in contemplation by other nation-states when they ratified the Vienna Convention. 261:
Both Sanchez-Llamas and Bustillo filed state habeas petitions in their respective cases arguing that their right to consular notification had been violated. In both Oregon and Virginia, the courts ruled that because the claims were not argued at the trial court level they were procedurally barred.
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for beating a man to death with a baseball bat. Neither man had his consulate informed of the charges against him, as is required by Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
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The supreme courts of Oregon and Virginia both upheld the states' procedural bars. The two cases were then consolidated and argued before the United States Supreme Court.
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However, the Supreme Court was unwilling to rule whether or not Article 36 created individual rights that had to be honored in state criminal proceedings.
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The Court also held that Article 36 claims not timely brought could be procedurally barred by state procedural default rules.
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States could admit evidence against defendants even if the evidence was obtained in violation of the
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after engaging police in an armed confrontation. Mario Bustillo, a national of
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that was admitted into court in violation of Article 36 of the
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Supreme Court of the United States
U.S.
331
more
L. Ed. 2d
U.S. LEXIS
Oral argument
Vienna Convention
John Roberts
John P. Stevens
Antonin Scalia
Anthony Kennedy
David Souter
Clarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Breyer
Samuel Alito
United States Supreme Court
exclude evidence
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
Mexico
Oregon
Honduras
Virginia
Chief Justice
John Roberts
Breard v. Greene
Medellin v. Texas
The Supreme Court, 2005 Term — Leading Cases,
Cornell

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