Commonwealth v. Torres, J.

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• suggesting that “shock-the-conscience” test applies only to cases of violence and brutality comparable to Rochin
• finding no Fourteenth Amendment violation when state police officers broke into defendant's home and secretly placed a microphone in defendant's bedroom, as the trespass involved no coercion, violence or brutality to the defendant
• finding no Fourteenth Amendment violation when state police officers broke into defendant's home and secretly placed a microphone in defendant's bedroom, as the trespass involved no coercion, violence or brutality to the defendant
• while the other three Members who discussed the issue found the police activity “offensive” and “revolting” without relying on the lack of a warrant 32
• while the other three Members who discussed the issue found the police activity \offensive\ and \revolting\ without relying on the lack of a warrant [32]
• “There is no reliable evidence known to us that inhabitants of those states which exclude the evidence suffer less from lawless searches and seizures than those of states that admit it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).