• skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    Also not a lawyer.

    This legal doctrine is called Fruit of the Poisonous Tree and there are specific exceptions that can be made for it. According to its wikipedia page:

    The doctrine is subject to four main exceptions.[citation needed] The tainted evidence is admissible if:

    it was discovered in part as a result of an independent, untainted source; or

    it would inevitably have been discovered despite the tainted source; or

    the chain of causation between the illegal action and the tainted evidence is too attenuated; or

    the search warrant was not found to be valid based on probable cause, but was executed by government agents in good faith (called the good-faith exception).

    That said though, half this page is appended with [Citation Needed] so I maybe wouldn’t take that as gospel.