Flippo v. West Virginia, No. 98-8770 (U.S. Supreme Court) (528 U.S. 11; 120 S.Ct. 7) (October 18, 1999) (Per Curiam)

Loaded on Dec. 26, 1999

Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Warrants - Requirements/Scope/Exceptions.

Here the Court held that there is no "crime scene exception" to the Fourth Amendment's requirement for a search warrant, thus suppressing photographs the police removed from a briefcase found at the scene and opened without a warrant.

In this case, the photographs that were introduced at the trial of ...

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