# 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/9453434

## 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:** On rehearing
- **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/9453434

## 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

PER CURIAM:
The Petition for Rehearing is DENIED and no member of this panel nor Judge in regular active service on the Court having requested that the Court be polled on rehearing en banc, Rule 25(a), subpar. (b), the Petition for Rehearing En Banc is DENIED.

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