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The "fruit of the poisonous tree" is a legal doctrine that prohibits the use in a criminal trial of any evidence that was obtained by means of an illegal arrest, an unauthorized search or from an illegal interrogation by any law enforcement body.

"The fruit of the poisonous tree" is therefore a metaphor. The illegal arrest, search and interrogation would be the poisonous tree. The evidence derived by any of those means would be the fruit from the poisonous tree.

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