TWO KINDS OF COINCIDENCE: WHY COURTS DISTINGUISH DEPENDENT FROM INDEPENDENT INTERVENING CAUSES.

Eric A. Johnson

TWO KINDS OF COINCIDENCE: WHY COURTS DISTINGUISH DEPENDENT FROM INDEPENDENT INTERVENING CAUSES.

College of Law

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Abstract

The article discusses the distinction between dependent and independent intervening causes, and its use by the courts in the U.S. It examines temporal concurrence of the wrongdoer's conduct; and U.S. Supreme Court case Utah v. Strieff in which the court declined to suppress evidence that the police had obtained as the result of an unlawful investigatory stop.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	77-101
Number of pages	25
Journal	George Mason Law Review
Volume	25
Issue number	1
State	Published - Sep 1 2017

Keywords

UNITED States. Supreme Court
INTERVENING cause (Law)
COURTS -- United States
EVIDENCE (Law)
CRIMINAL investigation

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