In a drunken rage, a man killed his wife and buried her in the backyard. He turned himself into the police and admitted that he killed her, and prior to being Mirandized, he revealed the location of her body. The defense argued that the evidence about the body was inadmissible because that information was obtained illegally. However, the prosecutor successfully argued that it should be admitted, because police would have discovered the freshly dug grave in the backyard without the confession. The judge allowed the evidence by citing the ______ rule.
A. exclusionary
B. inevitable discovery
C. fruit of the poisonous tree
D. good-faith exception
B. inevitable discovery
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