United States v. John Scott

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• holding that evidence discovered pursuant to a warrant based on illegally-obtained evidence will be inadmissible unless other, untainted information in the affidavit establishes probable cause
• recognizing that a properly executed controlled buy is generally “a reliable indicator as to the presence of illegal drug activity” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• recognizing that a properly executed controlled buy is generally “a reliable indicator as to the presence of illegal drug activity” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• concluding probable cause supported a warrant to search a house when, during two controlled buys, seller left the CS at a gas station, drove to the house, and then returned to the gas station with drugs
• “[A]n individual who makes a phone call on a public phone not enclosed in a booth and in a voice audible to a person standing nearby ‘knowingly expose[s] [the conversation] to the public’ and is not entitled to Fourth Amendment protection.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).