Mapp v. Ohio · ¶45

For nearly fifty years, since the decision of this Court in Weeks v. United States, federal courts have refused to permit the introduction into evidence against an accused of his papers and effects obtained by “unreasonable searches and seizures” in violation of the Fourth Amendment. In Wolf v. Colorado, decided in 1948, however, this Court held that “in a prosecution in a State court for a State crime the Fourteenth Amendment does not forbid the admission of evidence obtained by an unreasonable search and seizure.” I concurred in that holding on these grounds:

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U. S. Reports, volume 367, at 643 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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