Legal Opinion
Smith v. Maryland
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 20, 1979No. 78-5374PublishedCited by 2,166 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
This case presents the question whether the installation and use of a pen register1 constitutes a “search” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment,2 made applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment. Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U. S. 643 (1961).
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On March 5, 1976, in Baltimore, Md., Patricia McDonough was robbed. She gave the police a description of the robber and of a 1975 Monte Carlo automobile she had observed near the scene of the crime. Tr. 66-68. After the robbery, McDonough began receiving threatening and obscene phone calls from a man identifying himself as the robber. On one…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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3Cited by2,166 opinions
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