Opinion ID: 696330
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Heading: Independence of Warranted Search

Text: 4 Hill also argues the warrant was tainted by a prior search--which the district court assumed was illegal--during which officers saw a sawed-off shotgun in the bedroom of his home. To be untainted by this prior search, the officers' decision to seek the warrant must not have been prompted by what they had seen during [the earlier unlawful search]. Murray v. United States, 487 U.S. 533, 542, 108 S.Ct. 2529, 2536, 101 L.Ed.2d 472 (1988). In particular, the district court must explicitly find that the agents would have sought a warrant if they had not earlier entered [defendant's house]. Id. at 543, 108 S.Ct. at 2536; see also Holzman, 871 F.2d at 1514. Because the district court did not make such a finding, the case is REVERSED AND REMANDED for further proceedings.