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Mancusi Vs. Deforte

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 17, 1968

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  1. United States Vs. Lefkowitz US Supreme Court · Apr 11, 1932
  2. United States Vs. Jeffers US Supreme Court · Nov 13, 1951
  3. Flast Vs. Cohen US Supreme Court · Jun 10, 1968
  4. U.S. 364 (1968) U.S. Supreme Court Mancusi v. DeForte
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  5. U.S. 364 (1968) Mancusi v. DeForte
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  6. Amendment rights were violated by the search and seizure. and that the materials were inadmissible under Mapp v. Ohio
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  7. union officials. Respondent thus had standing to object to the admission of the seized papers at his trial. Jones v. United
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  8. that the seized material was constitutionally inadmissible in state proceedings under the rule laid down in Mapp v. Ohio
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  9. The decision below was based solely upon a finding that DeForte's Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights, see Ker v. California
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  10. right against self-incrimination with respect to the use against him of the seized records. Cf. United States v. White
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  11. Wilson v. United
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  12. Simmons v. United
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  13. not to be taken literally, and that the protection of the Amendment may extend to commercial premises. See, e.g., See v. Seattle
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  14. Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United
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  15. Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United
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  16. who have title to the searched premises. It was Page 392 U. S. 368 settled even before our decision in Jones v. United
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  17. U. S. 257 , that one with a possessory interest in the premises might have standing. See, e.g., United States v. Jeffers
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  18. The Court's recent decision in Katz v. United
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  19. long been settled that one has standing to object to a search of his office, as well as of his home. See, e.g., Gouled v. United
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  20. Goldman v. United
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  21. Lopez v. United
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  22. Osborn v. United
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  23. States, 385 U. S. 323 . Since the Court in Jones v. United
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  24. had been seized from a desk or a filing cabinet in that office, he would have had standing. Cf. Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United
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  25. given, either expressly or by implication. Our conclusion that DeForte had standing finds strong support in Jones v. United
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  26. Camara v. Municipal
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  27. Amalgamated Union, Local 22 v. Levine
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  28. instead of being judged by the officer engaged in the often competitive enterprise of ferreting out crime.' Johnson v. United
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  29. Giordenello v. United
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  30. States, 357 U. S. 480 , 357 U. S. 486 . In Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United
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  31. Those appeals culminated in a petition for certiorari to this Court, which was denied sub nom. De Grandis v. New
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  32. for certiorari following direct appeal was denied in 1963, more than two years after the Court's decision in Mapp v. Ohio
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  33. Under the rule laid down in Linkletter v. Walker
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  34. during a search of DeForte's home, and, in that event, we think it clear that he would have had standing. Wilson v. United
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  35. Stoner v. California
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  36. McDonald v. United
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  37. Agnello v. United
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  38. The Court's opinion in Davis v. United
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  39. See v. City
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  40. papers by means which did not violate the Fourth Amendment. As Mr. Justice Holmes stated in Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United
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  41. to use of such papers as evidence has been left to the owner whose constitutional rights had been invaded. In Wilson v. United
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  42. In United States v. White
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  43. of the defendant's own property when illegally seized, has had only a precarious tenure in this Court. See Adams v. New
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  44. Weeks v. United
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  45. States, 232 U. S. 383 (1914), and my concurring opinion in Mapp v. Ohio
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  46. the organization can obtain return of all the documents by bringing a civil action. See, e.g., Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United
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  47. any other circumstances. I have found no past decision by this Court to that effect. Neither Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United
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  48. States, 251 U. S. 385 (1920), nor Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United
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  49. in no way supports the Court's holding today, directly or indirectly. Jones v. United
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  50. the Fourth Amendment to a position of importance far above that of any other constitutional provision, compare Flast v. Cohen
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