United States v. Cassity

OPINION

FEIKENS, Chief Judge.

Defendants successfully challenged their 1978 convictions for conspiring to manufacture and manufacturing amphetamine, a controlled substance, on the grounds that the evidence by which they were convicted was the fruit of illegal electronic surveillance. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the search warrants pursuant to which the beepers were installed in two cans of chemicals and a heating mantle did not meet the requirements of the Fourth Amendment because they contained no expiration date or time limit, see United States v.…