Burdeau v. McDowell
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. Appeal from an order of the District Court Requiring that certain books and papers be impounded with thé clerk and ultimately returned to the appellee, and enjoining officer's of the Department of Justice from using them, or evidence derived through them, in criminal proceedings against him.
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APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. Appeal from an order of the District Court Requiring that certain books and papers be impounded with thé clerk and ultimately returned to the appellee, and enjoining officer's of the Department of Justice from using them, or evidence derived through them, in criminal proceedings against him. The facts are stated in the opinion, post, 470. It was not shown that any book, paper, or other document which was the private property of appellee was delivered to or was ever in the possession of appellant. It…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
J. C. McDowell, hereinafter called the petitioner, filed a petition in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania asking for an order for ohe return to him of certain books', papers, memoranda, correspondence and other data in the possession of Joseph A. Burdeau, appellant herein, Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States.
In the petition it is stated that Burdeau and his associates intended to present to the grand jury in and for the Western District of Pennsylvania a charge against petitioner of an alleged violation of § 215 of the Criminal…
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