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| | United States v. Medearis, 2002 DSD 31 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | United States, 251 US 385 (1920), observed that the "exclusionary rule has no application" when the "Government learned of the evidence 'from an independent source.'" 371 US at 487. |
 | | United States, 487 US 533, 537 (1988), the Court reaffirmed that the "independent source" doctrine applied "to evidence initially discovered during, or as a consequence of, an unlawful search, but later obtained independently from activities tainted by the initial illegality." See Segura v. |
 | | United States, 468 US 796, 814-16 (1984) (evidence seized under a valid search warrant, based on evidence obtained before the illegal entry into the defendant's home was admissible because the same was derived from an independent source); see also Reinholz, 245 F3d at 729; Hamilton, 809 F2d at 465-67. |
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