Coolidge v. New Hampshire

delivered the opinion of the Court.*

We are called upon in this case to decide issues under the Fourth and Fourteenth. Amendments arising in the context of a state criminal trial for the commission of a particularly brutal murder. As in every case, our single ’ duty is to determine the issues presented in accord with the Constitution and the law.

Pamela Mason, a 14-year-old girl, left her home •in Manchester, New Hampshire, on the evening of January *13, 1964, during a heavy snowstorm, apparently in response to a man’s telephone call for a babysitter. Eight days later, after a thaw, her body was…