United States v. Watson

Mr. Justice Marshall,

with whom Mr. Justice Brennan joins, dissenting.

By granting police broad powers to make warrantless arrests, the Court today sharply reverses the course of our modern decisions construing the Warrant Clause of the Fourth Amendment. The Court turns next to the consent-to-search question last dealt with in Schneckloth *434v. Bustamonte, 412 U. S. 218 (1973). Without acknowledgment or analysis, the Court extends the scope of that decision to the situation expressly reserved in Schneck-loth, and creates a rule inconsistent with Schneck-loth’s own analysis. The Court takes both…