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Henry v. United States, 361 U.S. 98 (1959)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Henry v. United States, 361 U.S. 98 (1959)
Henry v. United States No. 17 Argued October 20-21, 1959 Decided November 23, 1959 361 U.S. 98
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT
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Without a warrant for search or arrest, federal officers who were investigating a theft from an interstate shipment of whiskey twice observed cartons being placed in a motor car in a residential district, followed and stopped the car, arrested petitioner and another man who were in it, searched the car, and found and seized cartons containing radios stolen from an interstate shipment. At petitioner’s trial for unlawfully possessing radios stolen from an interstate shipment, his timely motion to suppress the evidence so seized was overruled, and he was convicted.
Held: on the record in this case, the officers did not have probable cause for the arrest when they stopped the car; the search was illegal; the articles seized were not admissible in evidence; and the conviction is reversed. Pp. 98-104.
259 F.2d 725 reversed.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Henry v. United States, 361 U.S. 98 (1959) in 361 U.S. 98 Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=1HPXWB5V7NXHANS.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Henry v. United States, 361 U.S. 98 (1959), in 361 U.S. 98, Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=1HPXWB5V7NXHANS.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Henry v. United States, 361 U.S. 98 (1959). cited in 1959, 361 U.S. 98. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=1HPXWB5V7NXHANS.
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