United States v. Craig Lawrence Thomas

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• holding that government failed to prove inevitable discovery because \the bank money found in the illegal search changed the whole nature of the investigation that followed\
• concluding that discovery was not inevitable where police first unlawfully searched the defendant’s hotel room and then set up surveillance to monitor the hotel room
• holding that the illegal search itself was the only possible source of evidence
• deciding not to apply the inevitable discovery doctrine where only the illegal search itself led to the discovery of the stolen bank money
• rejecting the requirement that there be an independent line of investigation for the exception to apply
• finding inevitable discovery doctrine did not permit admission of evidence seized after surveillance had been set up following illegal entry into defendant’s hotel room; “the bank money found in the illegal search changed the whole nature of the investigation that followed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).