Question: Should the evidence be suppressed? Does the Independent Source Doctrine help the prosecution? The Inevitable Discovery Doctrine? Must the prosecution show there was an independent investigation underway that would have uncovered the same evidence? United States v. Christy, 739 F.3d 534 (10th Cir. 2014)
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“FBI agents in California learned that the defendant drove from New Mexico to California to meet a teenager whom the defendant had had sexually explicit online conversations on the Internet. The agents also had evidence that the defendant and the teenager drove back to New Mexico together. The agents informed New Mexico police, who sent an officer to observe the defendant’s home. Seeing the teenager inside in a state of undress, the officer entered the home and arrested the defendant. In a search accompanying the arrest the officer found the evidence of child pornography. Defendant was charged with bringing a minor across state lines for sexual purposes, and possession of child pornography. Defendant moved to suppress all the evidence gathered from the search of his home, which the prosecution conceded was illegal.
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