Legal Opinion

Andresen v. Maryland

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided June 29, 1976No. 74-1646PublishedCited by 1,114 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun

This case presents the issue whether the introduction into evidence of a person’s business records, seized during a search of his offices, violates the Fifth Amendment’s command that “[n]o person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.” We also must determine whether the particular searches and seizures here were “unreasonable” and thus violated the prohibition of the Fourth Amendment.

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In early 1972, a Bi-County Fraud Unit, acting under the joint auspices of the State’s Attorneys’ Offices of Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties, Md., began an…

2Cases cited40 opinions

  1. Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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  4. Schmerber v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  5. United States v. VentrescaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965

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