Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Clinton v. Virginia
377 U.S. 158
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1964-05-04
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- reversing state court’s holding that insertion of electronic device into the wall dividing two apartments did not constitute a physical intrusion of the home
- summarily reversing the opinion of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia in Clinton v. Commonwealth, 204 Va. 275, 282, 130 S.E.2d 437, 442 (1963
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CLINTON
v.
VIRGINIA.
No. 294.
Supreme Court of United States.
Argued April 27, 1964. Decided May 4, 1964. CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA.Calvin H. Childress argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.
D. Gardiner Tyler, Assistant Attorney General of Virginia, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the briefs was Robert Y. Button, Attorney General of Virginia.
PER CURIAM.
The motion to strike the supplemental brief on behalf of the respondent is denied. The judgment is reversed. Silverman v. United States, 365 U. S. 505; Ker v. California, 374 U. S. 23.
MR. JUSTICE CLARK, concurring:
Since the Court finds that the "spiked" mike used by the police officers penetrated petitioner's premises sufficiently to be an actual trespass thereof, I join in the judgment.
MR. JUSTICE WHITE dissents.