In Re a Special Investigation No. 228

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• explaining that § 551 and the Fourth Amendment “are totally divergent remedies” in that they serve different purposes, but that they “overlap[ ] minimally as they touch probable cause”
• noting that the statute’s language that “property [] ‘be restored to the person from whom it was taken’” had the effect of returning stolen goods to a thief, although they do not have rightful ownership of the stolen goods
• “The burden was not upon the State to prove that there was probable cause; it was upon the petitioners to prove that there was not.”
• “Even to vindicate the loftiest of constitutional ideals, we do not suppress evidence at the grand jury level.”
• “The central purpose . . . was to set out the requirements for obtaining a search warrant.”
• recounting history of § 551

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