Legal Opinion
Wolf v. Colorado
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 27, 1949No. 17 and 18PublishedCited by 1,516 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Frankfurter
The precise question for consideration is this: Does a conviction by a State court for a State offense deny the “due process of law” required by the Fourteenth Amendment, solely because evidence that was admitted *26at the trial was obtained under circumstances which would have rendered it inadmissible in a prosecution for violation of a federal law in a court of the United States because there deemed to be an infraction of the Fourth Amendment as applied in Weeks v. United States, 232 U. S. 383? The Supreme Court of Colorado has sustained convictions in which such evidence was admitted, 117…
2Cases cited110 opinions
- Weeks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Palko v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Hurtado v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Brown v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1936
- Twining v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1908
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3Cited by1,516 opinions
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- Franks v. DelawareSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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