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A comment on Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional. Parent comment

Re:Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and La... by bureaucrat on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:48PM (#21518529)
Yes. If the magistrate fails to notice the illegal-ness of the evidence and gives the warrant, it is valid nonetheless.
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Re:Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and La... by velosol on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @06:27PM (#21519393)
If the illegal-ness later comes to light would a court consider evidence from the 'valid' warrant tainted? Always, sometimes?
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Re:Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and La... by waterheater on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:24AM (#21521802)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

In the specific case you're talking about, always.

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Re:Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and La... by aidenn0 on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @06:37PM (#21519462)
IANAL, but my understanding is that evidence obtained from an invalidated warrant is disallowed, unless the court finds that it was inevitable that the state would have discovered the evidence.
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Re:Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and La... by bureaucrat on Friday November 15, 2019 @06:48PM (#21549871)
Nope. If the government fooled the magistrate, it is disallowed. However if the magistrate has failed to decode the law correctly and issued an unlawful or unconstitutional warrant, the evidence obtained by the warrant can be used in court.
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