Legal Opinion
Katz v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 18, 1967No. 35PublishedCited by 12,104 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
The petitioner was convicted in the District Court for the Southern District of California under an eight-count indictment charging him with transmitting wagering information by telephone from Los Angeles to Miami and Boston, in violation of a federal statute.1 At trial the Government was permitted, over the petitioner’s objection, to introduce evidence of the petitioner’s end of telephone conversations, overheard by FBI agents who had attached an electronic listening and recording device to the outside of the public telephone booth from which he had placed his calls. In affirming his…
2Cases cited42 opinions
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3Cited by12,104 opinions
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