INEVITABLE-DISCOVERY RULE

inevitable discovery rule

inevitable-discovery rule. Criminal procedure. The rule providing — as an exception to the fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree doctrine — that evidence obtained by illegal means may nonetheless be admissible if the prosecution can show that the evidence would eventually have been legally obtained anyway. See FRUIT-OF-THE-POISONOUS-TREE DOCTRINE. Cf. INDEPENDENT-SOURCE RULE . [Cases: Criminal Law 394.1(3). C.J.S. Criminal Law

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