In a case where the criminal defendant’s attorney said the state Supreme Court abrogated its own standard to let an Allegheny County jury’s guilty verdict stand, the Supreme Court has decided by a narrow margin that the independent source doctrine only applies to cases when there is evidence of police misconduct.
The justices were unanimous in the result that a suppression court properly admitted evidence under the independent source doctrine but were split 4-2 regarding the scope of the doctrine’s applicability.
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