Tozer v. LTV Corp.

How later courts describe this case

• concluding that a military contractor could assert a Yearsley defense to a federal cause of action
• outlining concerns to be considered in invoking the inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary rule
• Applying the inevitable discovery doctrine to allow admission of evidence seen during illegal search, some of which was included in a warrant affidavit, when sufficient independent information existed to support issuance of a valid warrant
• post-Nix decision holding evidence of drugs admissible at trial because search warrant inevitably would have been sought and issued even if illegal search had not taken place
• inevitable discovery doctrine applied to evidence discovered during illegal bomb sweep of apartment
• "the items that [the officer] saw and that later were seized pursuant to a valid warrant were admissible . . . even if [the officer] can be said to have 'seized' them by seeing them in the course of his search"