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There are two prin-cipal reasons for the deviation from that traditional rule: (i) to policethe law enforcement agencies by excluding evidence illegally ob-tained, and (2) to protect fully the civil rights of a defendant fromany infringement.It is apparent that the first basis is not applicable in the Lebelcase.
At trial, the presiding judge, after ruling the 10pm search illegal, would still rule that the evidence obtained from the illegal 10pm search is in fact admissible, since it would have been inevitably discovered by a search conducted at 11pm with the valid search warrant.