Criminal Procedure: Exclusionary Rule: Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine

Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine:

• Illegally seized evidence will be excluded
  
• along with evidence which was obtained or derived
• from police illegality

Breaking the chain between unlawful police actions and some supposedly illegally derived pieces of evidence: Government can show:

• Inevitable discovery
• Independent source
  
• Intervening acts of free will on the part of D

If original police illegality was a Miranda violation: FoPT does not apply.