Davis v. Mississippi, No. 645 (U.S. Supreme Court) (394 U.S. 721; 89 S.Ct. 1394) (April 22, 1969) (Justice Brennan)
Here the Court vacated the conviction of a young black man on the grounds that his fingerprints had been obtained as the product of an illegal arrest and should have been excluded under the exclusionary rule.
In this case police officers in Meridian, Mississippi, unlawfully arrested and confined a young ...
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