evidenced

(14) As evidenced by the Ward decision, the factual connection to the residence can be as simple as a reasonable inference by the magistrate that drug dealers often keep evidence and contraband at their residence.

Leon examined the very purpose of the exclusionary rule and balanced its rationale against "[t]he substantial social costs exacted by the exclusionary rule...that some guilty defendants may go free or receive reduced sentences as a result of favorable plea bargains."(6) The decision evidenced the Court's view that an "unbending application of the exclusionary sanction to enforce the ideals of governmental rectitude would impede unacceptably the truth-finding functions of the judge and jury."(7)