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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C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied.