Word: comley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Connecticut's Supreme Court of Errors was obviously bothered by the case it was considering. The crime, said Judge John M. Comley speaking for a unanimous bench, was "particularly revolting and atrocious." Yet the conviction of Handyman Harlis Miller, serving a life sentence for the murder of Westport Matron Isabel Sillan, was reversed because it had been obtained with the aid of inadmissible evidence...
...every search without warrant is illegal," noted Judge Comley. "For example, a search which is an incident to a lawful arrest is proper." But the search of Miller's car was "remote from the arrest both in time and space." The U.S. citizen's immunity from such illegal search is a cornerstone of the Constitution, and the court was guarding against any erosion of that immunity...