: "I think her reasoning will go like this: as to the counts based on possessing the documents she will say "official act" and his motive can't be questioned; as to the obstruction counts she will say that because he was entitled to possess them the search warrant was invalid.*"

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I think her reasoning will go like this: as to the counts based on possessing the documents she will say "official act" and his motive can't be questioned; as to the obstruction counts she will say that because he was entitled to possess them the search warrant was invalid.*

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[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:19 UTC

It's sort of a reverse/perversion of what lawyers call "fruit of the poisonous tree." When a search warrant is based on illegal grounds, the product the warrant is excluded from evidence. Here the warrant was based on probable cause of a (newly) legal act and therefore is unsupportable.

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