109 Ill. App. 3d 761 - People v. Dortch’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “If police conduct is found to be purposeful and flagrant, then the taint from the illegality is not attenuated or diminished. This is because the purpose of suppressing evidence is to prevent similar conduct on the part of the police in the future and to deny them any benefit from such conduct. However, in the instant case, the trial court specifically found that Dortch's arrest was not effected for the purpose of obtaining evidence. The police did not embark on the expedition in the hope that 'something might turn up.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dortch v. O'Leary

2. “The guiding question ... is 'whether, granting establishment of the primary illegality, the evidence to which instant objection is made has been come at by exploitation of that illegality or instead by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dortch v. O'Leary

3. “the temporal proximity of the illegality to the evidence obtained; the presence of intervening circumstances; the purpose and flagrancy of the police conduct; and the presence of or absence of Miranda warnings.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dortch v. O'Leary