>I am continually amazed at HN's ability to reject reality in favor of some imaginary world that doesn't actually exist Your claim is just absurd. In a success

>I am continually amazed at HN's ability to reject reality in favor of some imaginary world that doesn't actually exist Your claim is just absurd. In a successful use of parallel construction, the defendant and possibly even the prosecution should be unaware that it even occurred. Your experience as a lawyer is not a good reason to expect it isn't happening. And though I agree that local use alone is likely rare, one of the common methods is for a federal agency to pass information to a smaller law enforcement agency. Additionally, using illegally collected evidence as a justification to pursue someone for an unrelated crime would still be parallel construction.