Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Tozer v. LTV Corp.
Tozer v. LTV Corp., 101 L. Ed. 2d 931 (1988)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1988-06-30
- Topic
- general
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 | 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 | 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"
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- 28 opinions
C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied.