Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in a 5-3 decision which dissenting Justice Felix Frankfurter said "makes a mockery" of the Fourth Amendment, the Supreme Court held that officers engaged in lawful arrest may search premises without a search warrant.. Justice Sherman ("Shay") Minton, newest member of the nation's highest tribunal, wrote the majority opinion, his first important one. Former Attorney General Robert H. Jackson joined Frankfurter in a biting dissent, and Hugo Black wrote a separate dissenting opinion...
Squalid Defrauder. The case itself concerned one Albert Rabinowitz-"a squalid little defrauder," Frankfurter called him -who was arrested on a warrant charging him with counterfeiting postage stamps. He was picked up in his one-room Manhattan office, which the arresting U.S. Treasury officers promptly searched. The majority opinion rested on the contention that the search & seizure of stamps as evidence were incidental to a valid arrest and did not extend beyond the room used for unlawful purposes...
...right to search an arrested person and to take the stuff on top of the desk at which he sits has a justification of necessity which does not eat away the great principle of the Fourth Amendment. But to assume that this exception of a search incidental to arrest permits a freehanded search without warrant is to subvert the purposes of the Fourth Amendment by making the exception displace the principle ... By the Bill of Rights, the founders of this country subordinated police action to legal restraints not in order to convenience the guilty but to protect the innocent . . . They...
...international train passing through the wild mountain country of U.S.-occupied Austria could be the perfect place to murder a diplomat who had probed too deeply behind the Iron Curtain. Karpe's rank was high enough to leave the impression they want: maybe they can't arrest and try foreign attaches, but they can take care of them just the same, the way they took care of Karpe...
...Poland, Bishop Kazimierz Kowalski of Chelmo was placed under house arrest. He had offended, said Warsaw, by making "all types of threats" against "patriotic" priests who had supported the Red government's crackdown on the Catholic welfare organization Caritas...