Commonwealth v. Saia

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• assuming initial illegality of entry, suppression denied because no showing exists of exploitation of primary illegality
• evidence sought to be suppressed must be shown to be “an ‘exploitation’ of the primary illegality”
• exclusionary rule does not bar evidence which is the result of defendant’s willful acts of misconduct, even if those acts were provoked by allegedly illegal entry by police
• assault and battery on officers who may have unlawfully entered defendant’s home
• evidence sought to be suppressed not an “exploitation” of the primary illegality
• warrantless entry after notice assumed illegal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).