Moore v. Baltimore & O. R.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• asserting that secret recording of jailhouse confession substantially burdens priest’s exercise of religion
• “the ordinary means of proving a case by good police work were ‘the least restrictive means’ of furthering the prosecutor’s desirable goal”
• “the knowledge, belief, or suspicion that freely-confessed sins would become public would operate as a serious deterrent to participation in the sacrament and an odious detriment accompanying participation”
• “A sub- stantial burden is imposed on . . . free exercise of religion . . . by the intrusion into the Sacrament of Penance by officials of the state.”
• discussing the lack of an adequate remedy in state court
• surreptitious tape recording of inmate’s confession to priest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).