What is admissible in court

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Question: Officer P searched the house of Citizen Q based on a warrant. He found five pounds of cocaine. P then asked Q if there were other drugs in his residence. Q replied, "I might as well tell you-I have other drugs in my car in the garage." Officer P then went to the garage, searched the car, and found a pound of heroin and three illegal weapons. P seized all these. All seized evidence was later introduced in Q's trial. Questions:

(a) What is admissible in court? All, some, or none of the evidence? and

(b) If any evidence is to be excluded, is the exclusion based on "evidence illegally seized" or "fruit of the poisonous tree"? Give reasons for your answers.

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