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It "should" make the evidence excludable, but might not. Again, do some reading --- especially, if you can find them, law school articles --- on "Fruit of a poisonous tree".

Most obvious exception: if the actual introduced evidence comes from a drug deal that is done in plain site, where the accused is arrested with the money from a hand to hand or somesuch --- unlawful surveillance or not, the evidence from that arrest might not be excludable.



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