referenced exceptions breaks the causal chain in this instance, we find that “circumstances independent of the primary illegality” have attenuated the causal connection and thus “dissipate the taint” of the officer’s unlawful search with regard to Tim-mann’s statements during the 3:33 PM phone call. See Bailey, 691 F.2d at 1013. Although only a short time had elapsed between the time of the unlawful search and Timmann’s statements, it appears that Timmann made the statements because he had learned from his aunt — who called him on her own initiative — that the officers were at his apartment because of the bullet hole, and not because the officers confronted him di rectly with the evidence obtained during the unlawful search. See Ceccolini, 435 U.S. 268, 279-80, 98 S.Ct. 1054, 1061-62 (<HOLDING>). Timmann contends that in order to dissipate
holding a police officers illegal search of an envelope at defendants store and store clerks testimony as to defendants activities sufficiently attenuated to dissipate the connection between the two where a substantial period of time had elapsed between the two events and the clerks testimony was an act of her own free will holding that two separate incidents of rape were perpetrated against the same victim where an appreciable period of time elapsed between the incidents and intervening events occurred during the interim holding that the passage of only twentyone days between the plaintiffs filing of an eeoc charge and his termination gave rise to an inference of a causal connection between the two events sufficient to establish a prima facie case of retaliation holding that a two to threeday time period between the employees complaint and his discharge was sufficient holding two instances of violating  148 were two offenses because thirty minutes elapsed between the two incidents and in the intervening space of time the defendant had completely calmed down and ceased his criminal activity