6.2

• Jurisdiction: Arizona

§ 6.2 Inevitable Discovery

General Rule. Evidence should not be suppressed as a result of an illegal search or seizure if it would have been inevitably discovered. See State v. Mitcham, 1 CA-CR 23-0014, 2023 WL 5354942, at *9 (App. Aug. 22, 2023) (although officers improperly created DNA profile, evidence was not subject to suppression because it would have been inevitably discovered); State v. Hein, 138 Ariz. 360, 674 P.2d 1358 (1983); State v. Jones, 185 Ariz. 471, 917 P.2d 200 (1996); State v. Hackman, 189 Ariz. 505, 943 P.2d 865 (App. 1997) (Div. 1). See also Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431 (1984) (evidence supported that volunteer search group would ultimately or inevitably have discovered homicide victim’s body two and one-half miles further along search route even if defendant, whose...