In criminal law, there is a legal doctrine known as the “fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.” What it says, generally, is that evidence obtained illegally cannot later be used as evidence in court.

ATLANTA -- In criminal law, there is a legal doctrine known as the “fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.” What it says, generally, is that evidence obtained illegally cannot later be used as evidence ...

In American criminal law, there is a doctrine called the “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree,” a term that obviously derives from the Biblical Adam and Eve account. Under that doctrine, government violations ...

Some of you may have seen Lou Dobbs' interview with Judicial Watch's Director of Investigations Chris Farrell on Fox News last week, regarding the colorfully-named legal doctrine of "the fruit of the ...

One of the most admirable aspects of the U. S. criminal justice system is a doctrine commonly called the “fruit of the poisonous tree.” It is an extension of the Exclusionary Rule that bars the ...

The fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine says any illegally obtained evidence — and information that comes from it — must be tossed out of court, and in the Aaron Hernandez murder case, some ...

This is the 10th part in an ongoing series on seminal cases in American law. Sometimes, law can be downright colorful. Perhaps never more so than in the seminal case of Mapp versus Ohio and the “fruit ...

July 12 — To the Editor: I am deeply disturbed by the July 12 article: “400 grams of fentanyl-judge tosses evidence”. US District Court Judge Landya McCafferty cited the “fruit of the poisonous tree” ...

For weeks, Republicans have been claiming that the impeachment inquiry isn’t a real impeachment inquiry because the House of Representatives never held a formal vote at the outset. But now, House ...