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Originally Posted by RainMaker
Anyone here with some legal background can answer this? My gut says that a pardon would just qualify for the crime that they were convicted of, not any other crimes that were discovered in the process of that. Or would it be part of that "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine?
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Not a lawyer, but I have watched a lot of Law and Order.
No, the pardon will not protect him here. The search warrant was legal at the time it was served. The pardon does not change that. Lots of chutzpah to try that, though.