Change in Evidence Rule Sought

The Reagan Administration today urged Congress to approve legislation that would severely weaken the longstanding prohibition against use in court of evidence obtained illegally by police.

Assistant Atty. Gen. Stephen Trott told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the rule, which dates to a 1914 Supreme Court decision and has been defended by civil libertarians as vital to deter police abuses, “can operate to turn loose hoodlums and spies who belong in jail.”