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 ...

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” ...

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 ...