If a police officer stops a car and finds contraband in the vehicle and finds it to be illegal, what is the effect of the initial stop?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Leyba, 174 Cal.Rptr. 867, 29 Cal.3d 591, 629 P.2d 961 (Cal. 1981):
4 If the initial stop of the automobile was unlawful, then all subsequent observations of the officers and contraband secured in a search following an arrest which flows from those observations must be suppressed as more pieces of forbidden fruit from that familiar grove of poisonous trees. (Wong Sun v. United States (1963) 371 U.S. 471 (83 S.Ct. 407, 9 L.Ed.2d 441).)
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