Opinion ID: 1690821
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Heading: Franks Violation

Text: Walley first alleges a Franks violation. Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154, 98 S.Ct. 2674, 57 L.Ed.2d 667 (1978). He contends that the affidavit for the littering warrant had a material omission or a recklessly false statement in that it implied that the trash found by the forester contained a receipt that identified him and his address; whereas the Wal-Mart receipt did not identify him on its face. This argument is of no avail to Walley. Only evidence that is discovered as a result of an officer's exploitation of an illegality is subject to suppression as the fruit of the poisonous tree. Hudspeth v. State, 349 Ark. 315, 78 S.W.3d 99 (2002). The search was not incident to an arrest for littering. In fact, the littering arrest warrant was never served. Because no search was conducted based on the littering arrest warrant, the evidence seized could not have been the fruit of that particular tree, poisonous or not. The validity of the littering arrest warrant is simply not relevant to the suppression question. [3] None of the evidence at trial would be excluded as fruit of the poisonous tree even if the littering warrant were invalid because no arrest was made under the warrant, nor was any evidence seized pursuant to the littering arrest warrant. [4]