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fruit of the poisonous tree
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Noun1.fruit of the poisonous tree - a rule that once primary evidence is determined to have been illegally obtained any secondary evidence following from it may also not be used
rule of evidence - (law) a rule of law whereby any alleged matter of fact that is submitted for investigation at a judicial trial is established or disproved


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quot; On the third try they get a card which reads: "The orchard of blighted trees produces poisonous fruit.
Dhatura and jati, though poisonous fruits, are believed to be sacred to Shiva and thus offered at his temples.
As he put it in an 1848 speech, "For a long time it lay dormant; but in the process of time it began to germinate, and produce its poisonous fruits.
 
 
 
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