Ep. #365: Will a SW save illegally obtained evidence?

📌 “The inevitable discovery doctrine, with its distinct requirements, is in reality and extrapolation from the independent source doctrine: Since the tainted evidence would be admissible if in fact discovered through an independent source, it should be admissible if it inevitably would have been discovered.”
- Murray v. U.S., 487 U.S. 533, 539, 108 S. Ct. 2529, 101 L. Ed. 2d 472 (1988).

📌 “When the challenged evidence has an independent source, exclusion of such evidence would put the police in a worse position than they would have been in absent any error or violation. There is a functional similarity between these two doctrines in that exclusion of evidence that would inevitably have been discovered would also put the government in a worse position, because the police would have obtained that evidence if no misconduct had taken place. Thus, while the independent source exception would not justify admission of evidence in this case, its rationale is wholly consistent with and justifies our adoption of the ultimate or inevitable discovery exception to the Exclusionary Rule.”
- Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431, 443–44, 104 S. Ct. 2501, 81 L. Ed. 2d 377 (1984).

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