John Emilio Blefare and Donald Michel v. United States

I dissent. The search procedure which my Brothers condone was, if not savage, so repugnant to the provisions of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments as to offend my judicial sensibility. That it was such as to “do more than offend some fastidious squeamishness or private sentimentalism” finds support in the recorded testimony of Agent Quinlan, the supervising officer, that during the procedure and when “they [the defendants] were retching and vomiting”, he himself suffered an “attack of nausea” and removed himself from the revolting scene.

*881Even if this prearranged medical procedure, at an office…