Segura v. United States

delivered the opinion of the Court. †

We granted certiorari to decide whether, because of an earlier illegal entry, the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of evidence seized later from a private residence *798pursuant to a valid search warrant which was issued on information obtained by the police before the entry into the residence.

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Resolution of this issue requires us to consider two separate questions: first, whether the entry and internal securing of the premises constituted an impermissible seizure of all the contents of the apartment, seen and unseen; second, whether the evidence first…