radical right
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Change the scenario.
A judge orders a warrant to search your home for drugs but an illegal weapon is found. If the warrant was found to illegal, the evidence of an illegal weapon is inadmissible as it would not have been discovered except for the illegal warrant.
Let's make it even worse. The police get a warrant to search 100 main street, but instead go to 200 main street, where they find illegal guns and drugs. In this case the exercise of that warrant is clearly illegal, and any evidence they collected inadmissible The problem is that the people at 200 mail street, after being indicted pled guilty to possession, made a full allocution, and agreed not to appeal their conviction, signed off by the defendants and their lawyers.
The allocution can be used as evidence in any other matter