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Facts, information, or physical objects that tend to prove an issue in a criminal prosecution but which are excluded from consideration by the trier of fact because they were learned directly from information illegally obtained in violation of the constitutional guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. Derivative evidence is inadmissible as proof because of the application of the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree doctrine, which treats the original evidence and any evidence derived from it as tainted because of the illegal way in which it was obtained by agents of the government. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The exclusion is so broad that other derivative evidence of protected information has also been excluded. The Scholarship of Poliziano and Its Context" describes a revolution in this second, philological style of reading, for Angelo Poliziano, the famous Florentine scholar, developed the modern method of arranging both manuscripts and historical sources genealogically in order to eliminate derivative evidence. |
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