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Walder v. United States, 347 U.S. 62 (1954)
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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.
Walder v. United States, 347 U.S. 62 (1954)
Walder v. United States No. 121 Argued November 30, 1953 Decided February 1, 1954 347 U.S. 62
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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Because heroin had been obtained from petitioner through unlawful search and seizure, its use in evidence was suppressed on petitioner’s motion, and an indictment against him for its possession was dismissed on the Government’s motion. In his subsequent trial for other illicit transactions in narcotics, petitioner testified on direct examination that he had never purchased, sold or possessed any narcotics. In order to impeach this testimony, the Government introduced the testimony of an officer who had participated in the unlawful search and seizure of the heroin involved in the earlier proceeding and the chemist who had analyzed it.
Held: Petitioner’s assertion on direct examination that he had never possessed any narcotics opened the door, solely for the purpose of attacking petitioner’s credibility, to evidence of the heroin unlawfully seized in connection with the earlier proceeding. Weeks v. United States, 232 U.S. 383, and Agnello v. United States, 269 U.S. 20, distinguished. Pp. 62-66.
201 F.2d 715, affirmed.
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MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Walder v. United States, 347 U.S. 62 (1954), in 347 U.S. 62, Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5PMDNAXIEDZ1NQJ.
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