Murray v. U.S., No. 86-995 (U.S. Supreme Court) (487 U.S. 533; 108 S.Ct. 2529) (June 27, 1988) (Justice Scalia)
In examining the inevitable discovery doctrine the court held that the ultimate question was whether the search pursuant to a warrant was in fact a genuinely independent source of the information and tangible evidence.
In this case, police officers, who had reason to believe that a warehouse held contraband, forced ...
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