What is the test for determining what would have happened if an unlawful search had never occurred?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Figueroa, C078108 (Cal. App. 2016):
the court ' "to determine, viewing affairs as they existed at the instant before the unlawful search, what would have happened had the unlawful search never occurred." ' " (People v. Hughston (2008) 168 Cal.App.4th 1062, 1072, italics omitted.)
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