” Ramirez-Sandoval, 872 F.2d at 1396 (quoting United States v. Namer, 835 F.2d 1084, 1087 (5th Cir.1988)). Under the attenuated basis exception, the government can admit evidence when “the relationship between the unlawful search or seizure and the challenged evidence becomes sufficiently weak to dissipate any taint resulting from the original illegality.” Smith, 155 F.3d at 1060; see also Murray v. United States, 487 U.S. 533, 536-37, 108 S.Ct. 2529, 101 L.Ed.2d 472 (1988). When the government is able to demonstrate that the police would have uncovered the challenged evidence notwithstanding the illegal search, we have held that the challenged evidence is sufficiently far from the tainted search to be admissible. United States v. McClendon, 713 F.3d 1211, 1217-1218 (9th Cir.2013) (<HOLDING>); see Smith, 155 F.3d at 1062-63 (holding that
holding that evidence obtained following the polices unconstitutional search of the defendants backpack which was not with the defendant at the time of the search and in which the police found a sawedoff shotgun was sufficiently far from the unconstitutional search because the challenged evidence was obtained as a result of the polices decision to pursue the defendant a decision they would have made even absent finding the sawedoff shotgun because the defendant was a person of interest in their underlying investigation holding that search of backpack constituted a search of defendants person and was not authorized by search warrant for premises holding that the polices potentially unconstitutional search incident to the defendants arrest did not affect the challenged evidences admissibility because the police would have found the evidence which was contained in the defendants garment bag while taking inventory of the defendants belongings and booking him in conjunction with his arrest for the underlying incident holding that search of appellants suitcase found on the floor next to the couch on which he was sleeping was an unconstitutional search of his person and was not authorized by a search of the residence holding that for purposes of  4b12 possession of a sawedoff shotgun in violation of  5861d is a crime of violence because by its very nature a sawedoff shotgun always creates a serious risk of physical injury to another