Isaac L. James, Jr. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “dirty business” such as trickery and illegal acts often accompanies unjustifiable government intrusion
• if the affidavit of one officer, by itself, “would be enough to support a magistrate’s finding of probable cause,” the illegal search by another officer need not be considered (emphasis supplied)
• unusual angle or height of enhanced visual surveillance considered in determining degree of intrusion upon expectation of privacy
• “When an affidavit in support of a search warrant contains information which is in part unlawfully obtained, the validity of a warrant and search depends on whether the untainted information, considered by itself, establishes probable cause for the warrant to issue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).