Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Capra v. United States
Capra v. United States, 43 L. Ed. 2d 670 (1975)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1975-03-24
- Topic
- general
requiring suppression of conversations of party who was neither named in order nor conversing with named party, when order permitted only “the interception of telephonic communications of [named suspect] with co-conspirators, accomplices and agents”; id., 273 | "too brief a period for an eavesdropper even with experience to identify the caller and characterize the conversation." | effect on commerce found where payment of $150 was extorted by local official from tavern owner who purchased liquor from state distributors who in turn purchased liquor interstate | when police are merely assisting a private party who has authority to search and a legitimate need to do so, courts are reluctant to exclude the resulting evidence | when police are merely assisting a private party who has authority to search and a legitimate need to do so, courts are reluctant to exclude the resulting evidence | two minutes is “too brief a period for an eavesdropper even with experience to identify the caller and characterize the conversation” | “too brief a period for an eavesdropper even with experience to identify the caller and characterize the conversation.” | extortion from potential licensee by liquor license clerk affects future commerce of tavern | “when police are merely assisting a private party, who has au thority to search and a legitimate need to do so, ... courts are reluctant to exclude resulting evidence” | "when police are merely assisting a private party, who has authority to search and a legitimate need to do so, ... courts are reluctant to exclude resulting evidence"
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.