Criminal defendants do not need to prove a reasonable expectation of privacy in order to suppress evidence collected by police in an illegal search, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled.
In a unanimous July 19 ruling in Commonwealth v. Shabezz, the justices found that evidence gathered from a seizure deemed to be illegal is barred outright as “fruit of the poisonous tree.”
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