Legal Opinion
United States v. Plisco
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided February 11, 1938No. 59982PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COX, Justice.
The indictment charges a conspiracy of thirty-two defendants to violate the law relating to gambling in the District of Columbia. D.C.Code, § 863 as amended, and § 865, D.C.Code 1929, T. 6, §§ 151, 153.
Motions have been filed by four of the defendants, Plisco, Morganstein, Cahill, and Floratos, to quash certain search warrants and to suppress the evidence seized thereunder upon the ground, among others, that material evidence upon which these warrants were issued appears to have been obtained by police officers by means of tapping wires and intercepting messages passing within…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Olmstead v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1928
- Nardone v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Beard v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1936
- Smith v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1937
3Cited by5 opinions
- Sablowsky v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1938
- United States v. SullivanDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1953
- United States v. DeLeonUnited States Court of Military Appeals · 1955
- James v. United States (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1951
- James v. United States (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1951