United States v. Cesar Augusto Restrepo and Luis Pulido

WIENER, Circuit Judge:

This suppression of evidence case, implicating the independent source doctrine, arises from the warrantless “security sweep” of the residence of Defendant-Ap-pellee Luis Pulido and the ' subsequent search of that same residence pursuant to warrant. Plaintiff-Appellant United *966States appeals the district court’s decision to exclude from Pulido’s trial all evidence from the second search as tainted by the initial, illegal sweep. The government insists that the proper approach is to excise from the warrant affidavit those facts that were gleaned from the illegal search, and…