People v. Teicher

It was once said that "[wjhenever a court has a case where behavior that obviously is sordid can be proved to be criminal only with great difficulty, the effort to bridge the gap is apt to produce bad law” (Lutwak v United States, 344 US 604, 620, Justice Jackson dissenting). The case before us is an illustration of that thesis.

In affirming the convictions of the defendant, the majority has determined that the actions of the police, under a court-ordered warrant, in installing an electronic camera in the defendant’s dental office and utilizing it to obtain incriminating evidence, were legal.…