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Supreme Court· 10/13/1952

On Lee v. United States

Citations

  • 343 U.S. 747
  • 72 S. Ct. 967
  • 96 L. Ed. 2d 1270
  • 1952 U.S. LEXIS 2794

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the Fourth Amendment did not protect a conversation the defendant had with a third-party that police listened to through a wire
  • noting that testi- mony from witness receiving benefits from government “may raise serious questions of credibility”
  • noting that testimony from witness receiving benefits from government “may raise serious questions of credibility”
  • explaining that a trespass constitutes an unreasonable search if the officer gains entry “without any express or implied consent”
  • stating that “[t]his Court has long recognized the ‘serious questions of credibility’ informers pose”
  • holding that “no trespass was committed”

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Judges: Jackson, Black, Douglas, Burton, Frankfurter

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