I just need help with responding to this classmate, she responded by saying. I would like to add the asymmetry Wolf introduced into the law has now been replaced by a single standard. The double "plimsoll" line of due process for illegally obtained physical evidence has been replaced by a single line. The first line established was the means used to obtain the evidence with a distinction made between state and federal officers. Acts of federal officers violates of the fourth amendment would prevent the introduction of the evidence.
These same acts necessarily violate the fourteenth amendment if committed by state officers. However, the court did not hold to this line. The second line regarding the use of evidence was established. The use was not considered in violation of the fourteenth amendment, i.e., falling below the second plimsoll line, unless the methods of obtaining the evidence were of a special kind or amounted to a gross violation of individual rights.9 Now only one line remains below which "due process" must fall before there has been a violation of constitutionally protected rights.