inevitable discovery
Police tricks do not assure suppression in Virginia court
Police tricks are a common approach for law enforcement officers (LEOs) to coax confessions from Virginia suspects. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer I know that the Virginia Court of Appeals in a recent unpublished opinion. underlined that LEO gets wide berth to engage in such...
When Courts Protect Questionable Police Searches Through the Inevitable Discovery Doctrine
Often when I challenge police searches for lack of a search warrant or for other Constitutional infirmities, the prosecutor argues that the incriminating evidence would inevitably have been lawfully discovered by police if not first discovered in the questionable way with which the evidence in...
