State v. Mayfield

*874¶ 1 This case concerns an exception to the federal exclusionary rule known as the attenuation doctrine. The attenuation doctrine provides that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution is not subject to the exclusionary rule if "the connection between unconstitutional police conduct and the evidence is remote or has been interrupted by some intervening circumstance." Utah v. Strieff, 579 U.S. ----, 136 S.Ct. 2056, 2061, 195 L.Ed.2d 400 (2016). We are asked whether the attenuation doctrine is compatible with article I, section 7 of the Washington…