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· 3/29/1984

United States v. Leonard George Durant, United States of America v. Nadine Farris

Citations

  • 730 F.2d 1180
  • 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 24069
  • 15 Fed. R. Serv. 663

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the inevitable-discovery doctrine applies “when the evidence would have been inevitably discovered absent the illegal conduct”
  • “[The defendant’s] connection to the blue Oldsmobile would have been inevitably discovered once the officers became aware of [his] alleged participation in the bank robbery.” (emphasis added)
  • “[The defendant’s] connection to the blue Oldsmobile would have been inevitably discovered once the officers became aware of [his] alleged participation in the bank robbery.”
  • \[a]ny evidence attained as a direct result of an illegal stop would be inadmissible under the 'fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.'\

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Judges: Heaney, Henley, McMILLIAN

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