United States v. Belki Maria Vasquez De Reyes

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• holding that the inevitable discovery rule “permits the court to balance the public interest in providing a jury with all relevant and 48 probative evidence in a criminal proceeding against society’s interest in deterring unlawful police conduct”
• holding the inevitable discovery exception does not apply to the admission of unconstitutional inculpatory statements
• noting that “we know of no articulation of the inevitable discovery doctrine that restricts its application to physical evidence”
• reasoning that a statement is “by its very nature, evanescent and ephemeral,” and “[s]hould the conditions under which it was made change, even but a little, there could be no assurance the statement would be the same”
• declining to apply inevitable discovery doctrine where application “requires an unacceptable degree of assumption and speculation”
• declining to apply inevitable discovery doctrine where application requires an unacceptable degree of assumption and speculation

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