Oakland warrant errors may damage drug cases Oct 3, 2008
If it's determined that the evidence used as probable cause for the search warrant was obtained illegally, then anything found during a subsequent search could be excluded under the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine, attorneys said. "I don't think there is any valid excuse to misrepresent to the court," defense attorney Anne Beles said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Alleged hit-and-run fatal in Butte Jun 4, 2008
Once the fruit of the poisonous tree is plucked there is no tree left at all. Here the State needed a warrant and did not have it, Belke wrote in his motion. (Montana Standard, MT)
Letters to the editor Sep 29, 2007
Children born to illegal immigrants are "fruit of the poisonous tree" and should also be illegal and have no standing in court. ---- Bill McKillop. (Anchorage Daily News)
Thais vote on constitution changes Aug 19, 2007
The government decreed there be no opinion polls ahead of the vote and Surayud and the military council at his back are clearly nervous about a low turnout in a poll Thaksin has dubbed "fruit of the poisonous tree" from his exile in London. Although approval needs only a simple majority, a low turnout would be a serious embarrassment for the government and be seen as an endorsement of Thaksin, still hugely popular in the countryside which swept him to successive election victories. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Sheriff sued for immigration raid Jul 12, 2007
It s known as the fruit of the poisonous tree, Lewis said. If the entry, the tree, is poisonous, then the fruit, whatever yielded in the search, is inadmissible. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
Court bars pot plants from evidence Apr 7, 2007
But in the eyes of the law, the state Supreme Court said Friday, they were "fruit of the poisonous tree.". The court on Friday said a Vermont District Court judge erred when she admitted the pot plants into evidence. (WCAX.com, VT)
