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Fruit of the Poisonous Tree

nounid 58266·updated May 18, 2026
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a rule that once primary evidence is determined to have been illegally obtained any secondary evidence following from it may also not be used

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Variants

plural
Fruit of the Poisonous Trees
possessive
Fruit of the Poisonous Tree's
pluralpossessive
Fruit of the Poisonous Trees'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
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a rule that once primary evidence is determined to have been illegally obtained any secondary evidence following from it may also not be used
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
a rule that once primary evidence is determined to have been illegally obtained any secondary evidence following from it may also not be used
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