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· 1/27/1976

United States v. Thomas Charles Kelly

Citations

  • 529 F.2d 1365
  • 1976 U.S. App. LEXIS 13132

How courts have described this case

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  • consent by UPS to a search by the FBI does not satisfy the requirements of the Fourth Amendment
  • “in the absence of exigent circumstances in which police must act immediately to preserve evidence of the crime, we deem the warrantless search of materials protected by the First Amendment to be unreasonable.”

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Judges: Ross, Stephenson, Webster

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