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· 8/16/2007

United States v. Grajeda

Citations

  • 497 F.3d 879
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 19459
  • 2007 WL 2323935

How courts have described this case

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

  • assuming a Fourth Amendment violation in an initial search, but holding subsequent search validated by intervening voluntary consent
  • assuming a Fourth Amendment violation in an initial search, but holding subsequent search validated by intervening voluntary consent
  • assuming the existence of a Fourth Amendment violation in considering whether a defendant’s voluntary consent purged the taint of the alleged violation
  • unnecessary to address whether the act amounted to an illegal search because, even assuming a Fourth Amendment violation, subsequent search was validated by intervening voluntary consent
  • “Where the initial search is invalid, the fruit of that unlawful search must be suppressed unless the evidence resulted from an intervening independent act of free will[.]”

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Judges: Murphy, Hansen, Colloton

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