Legal Opinion
Francesco Caltagirone v. George v. Grant, United States Marshal
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 26, 1980No. 1252, Docket 80-2081PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:
Infamous among the abuses wrought in the eighteenth century by unbounded royal power were lettres de cachet. Through them, the king could free — or imprison — upon no more a showing than monarchal whim. Because of them, and numerous other abuses, the Framers of our Constitution resolved to regulate all manner of governmental intrusions and embodied their constraint in one of the starkest provisions of the Bill of Rights: “. . .no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.” 1 Decalogical in its brevity and authority, the constitutional proscription serves…
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