The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Ladum, 141 F.3d 1328 (9th Cir. 1998):
Indirect fruits of an illegal search or arrest should be suppressed when they bear a sufficiently close relationship to the underlying illegality. New York v. Harris, 495 U.S. 14, 19, 110 S.Ct. 1640, 1643-44, 109 L.Ed.2d 13 (1990). However, "attenuation analysis is only appropriate where, as a
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