United States v. Gloria Santa, A.K.A. Gloria Santa-Betancur

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• holding that the reading of Miranda warnings and the signing of a waiver of Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights are not sufficient intervening factors sufficient to dissipate the taint of an unlawful entry into a home
• observing that there had been no “significant lapse of time” in a case where the defendant, handcuffed and lying on the floor, consented to a search just two to three minutes after the police made an illegal forced entry into his home
• noting that the exigent circumstances exception to the warrant requirement is compelling in narcotic cases because narcotics can easily be destroyed, but finding no exigent circumstances when occupants of house were not aware that they were under police investigation.
• observing that there had been no \significant lapse of time\ in a case where the defendant, handcuffed and lying on the floor, consented to a search just two to three minutes after the police made an illegal forced entry into his home
• observing that there had been no “significant lapse of time” in a case where the defendant, handcuffed and lying on the floor, consented to a search just two to three minutes after the police made an illegal forced entry into his home
• observing that there had been no ‘significant lapse of time’ in a case where the defendant, handcuffed and lying on the floor, consented to a search just two to three minutes after the police made an illegal forced entry into his home

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).