In criminal law, there is a legal doctrine known as the “fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.” What it says, generally, is that evidence obtained illegally cannot later be used as evidence in court.

In American criminal law, there is a doctrine called the “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree,” a term that obviously derives from the Biblical Adam and Eve account. Under that doctrine, government violations ...

ATLANTA -- In criminal law, there is a legal doctrine known as the “fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.” What it says, generally, is that evidence obtained illegally cannot later be used as evidence ...

A very good refutation of the position of GOP Rep. Kevin McCarthy was published Monday in the Arizona Daily Star’s letters to the editor under the headline “Fruit of poisonous tree argument unfounded.

With the completion of the poll of the Legislature on whether to override the governor’s veto of Senate Bill 442, I want to explain my consistent opposition to the bill, including voting against ...

In my posts yesterday I suggested that Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling — despite its unsupportable claims — was likely just to mean a delay in the progress of the investigation into ex-President Trump’s ...

(L-R)Scott Haze, Willa Fitzgerald , Joel Courtney, Tait Fletcher and HRVY Getty/Josh Wool/Getty EXCLUSIVE: Production is gearing up on Fruit of the Poisonous Tree, a true crime action-drama set to ...

For weeks, Republicans have been claiming that the impeachment inquiry isn’t a real impeachment inquiry because the House of Representatives never held a formal vote at the outset. But now, House ...

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