re: Our President's attorney's allege illegal conduct by Robert Mueller

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agree up until your last paragraph. They can't cite privileged communications in court (except in limited circumstances some of which may be in play but let's ignore that). Once they've seen something, even if they're not entitled to, they don't have to pretend not to know. They can use their knowledge to form the basis of the next stage of investigation. It's like having a math question and being given the answer, but no working, so you use the answer to figure out the correct method and then use the method to confirm the answer.

To continue your murder analogy, if you disclose the location of the body in the email, and that place is 20th on the list of places to search, it can magically get bumped up to 1st on the list, but the police can't use the email itself to get a warrant, they need to get someone else to give the same info.

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We're essentially saying the same thing.

I've ran MANY investgiations where we came up with evidence that maybe it would have been legally obtained maybe not (because sometimes when just going through material you see stuff and realize for whatever reason you can't use it) and had to come up with a way to get to the end without using the tainted evidence.

In our analogy here, you can't use the email to find the body, but now knowing where the body is you CAN use that information to focus your investigation elsewhere to come up with the same information that is in the email that you can't use.