# Eduardo Amador-Gonzalez v. United States

> Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · February 23, 1968 · 391 F.2d 308

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9453432

## Case

- **Full name:** Eduardo AMADOR-GONZALEZ, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- **Decided:** February 23, 1968
- **Citations:** 391 F.2d 308
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Coleman
- **Judges:** Wisdom, Coleman, Godbold
- **Cited by:** 160 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Overruled by United States v. Reginald James Causey, 834 F.2d 1179 (1987).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9453432

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the defendant's confession was the direct result of the illegal discovery of narcotics and that the taint of the illegally seized evidence had not been removed
- holding a “confession, resulting from [an unlawful] seizure and ... subsequent narcotics arrest, was the ‘fruit of the poisoned tree’ and therefore inadmissible”

## Opinion text

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge
(concurring in the result):
I concur in the result and in all of the opinion except portions of Part III, particularly Section B thereof. As always, Judge Wisdom has written a most thorough, scholarly opinion. In my view, however, the decisive point is that as to traffic violations the arrest in this case was pretextual. We do not, therefore, reach, and it is unnecessary to express an opinion on, the validity or invalidity of searches executed when an officer does make a bona fide arrest for a traffic violation committed in his presence.

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