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SCOTUS Case

United States v. Dionisio

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Background

United States v. Dionisio — U.S. Supreme Court case. This entry links to the full opinion in the CourtListener corpus.

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How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that compelling the production of voice exemplars for use in a grand jury proceeding would not be a search
  • holding that compelling the production of voice exemplars for use in a grand jury proceeding would not be a search
  • holding that compelling the production of voice exemplars for use in a grand jury proceeding would not be a search
  • holding that a person does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy with regard to physical characteristics which he or she routinely exposes to public view
  • holding that “applying paraffin casts to the accused’s hands [to test for gunpowder reside] did not violate the fourth . . . amendment[] any more than fingerprinting”
  • concluding that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in one’s appearance

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