United States Supreme Court

In a case in which a criminal defendant was detained, determined to have an outstanding warrant, then searched, the Utah Supreme Court's judgment suppressing the evidence is reversed where: 1) the evidence seized incident to defendant's arrest is admissible based on an application of the attenuation factors from Brown v. Illinois, 422 U. S. 590; 2) there was no flagrant police misconduct; and 3) the officer's discovery of a valid, pre-existing, and untainted arrest warrant attenuated the connection between the unconstitutional investigatory stop and the evidence seized incident to a lawful arrest.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/06/20

Judges

• THOMAS

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• United States Supreme Court

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