Legal Opinion
Rathbun v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 13, 1958No. 30PublishedCited by 308 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Warren
This case concerns the issue of whether the contents of a communication overheard on a regularly used telephone extension with the consent of one party to the conversation are admissible in federal court.1 Petitioner was convicted of violations of 18 U. S. C. § 875 (b) and (c) *108for transmitting an interstate communication which threatened the life of one Sparks in order to obtain from him a stock certificate which Sparks held as collateral for a loan. On March 16, 1955, petitioner, who was in New York, spoke by telephone with Sparks, who was in Pueblo, Colorado. Anticipating another call from…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Billeci v. United States. Lewis v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1950
- Reitmeister v. ReitmeisterCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1947
- United States v. PolakoffCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1940
- American Security & Trust Co. v. Commissioners of the District of ColumbiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
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3Cited by308 opinions
- Lopez v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Paul John Carbo, Frank Palermo, Joseph Sica, Louis Tom Dragna, and Truman K. Gibson, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
- United States v. Ralph 'Whitey' Tropiano, Lawrence R. Pellegrino and William Grasso,defendants-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969
- Lee v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- United States v. HoffaCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1965
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