United States v. Mowatt

How courts have described this case

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• holding that \ Leon only prohibits penalizing officers for their good-faith reliance on magistrates' probable cause determinations\ and that the exclusionary rule operates to penalize officers for any unconstitutional conduct preceding a magistrate's involvement
• finding exigent circumstances where the officers had a reasonable suspicion that the defendant had a weapon in his house
• finding exigent circumstances where the officers had a reasonable suspicion that the defendant had a weapon in his house
• good-faith exception does not apply where search warrant was prompted by previous warrantless illegal search
• exclusionary rule requires suppression of evidence seized beyond the terms of a search warrant
• evidence obtained on the basis of illegally seized evidence must be suppressed unless the connection between this evidence and the illegally seized evidence is so attenuated as to dissipate any taint, or unless the evidence is later discovered or obtained by independent and legitimate means

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