Murray v. United States
| Murray v. United States | |
|---|---|
| Argued December 8, 1987 Decided June 27, 1988 | |
| Full case name | Michael F. Murray v. United States |
| Citations | 487 U.S. 533 (more) 108 S. Ct. 2529; 101 L. Ed. 2d 472 |
| Holding | |
| The Fourth Amendment does not require the suppression of evidence initially discovered during police officers' illegal entry of private premises if that evidence is also discovered during a later search pursuant to a valid warrant that is wholly independent of the initial illegal entry. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Scalia, joined by Rehnquist, White, Blackmun |
| Dissent | Marshall, joined by Stevens, O'Connor |
| Dissent | Stevens |
| Brennan and Kennedy took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amend. IV | |
Murray v. United States, 487 U.S. 533 (1988), was a United States Supreme Court decision that created the modern "independent source doctrine" exception to the exclusionary rule. The exclusionary rule makes most evidence gathered through violations of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution inadmissible in criminal trials as "fruit of the poisonous tree". In Murray, the Court ruled that when officers conduct two searches, the first unlawful and the second lawful, evidence seized during the second search is admissible if the second search "is genuinely independent of [the] earlier one."