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Last week, in a 5-3 decision which dissenting Justice Felix Frankfurter said "makes a mockery" of the Fourth Amendment, the Supreme Court held that officers engaged in lawful arrest may search premises without a search warrant.. Justice Sherman ("Shay") Minton, newest member of the nation's highest tribunal, wrote the majority opinion, his first important one. Former Attorney General Robert H. Jackson joined Frankfurter in a biting dissent, and Hugo Black wrote a separate dissenting opinion...
Justice Alarmed. It was a clear victory for the Department of Justice, which had felt itself hampered under existing search & seizure laws. Frankfurter in his dissent was alarmed at the way the majority decision upset a principle reaffirmed as recently as two years ago, before the two new Truman appointees, Minton and ex-Attorney General Tom Clark, reached the bench. Frankfurter read his freshman colleagues a cutting lecture...
Squalid Defrauder. The case itself concerned one Albert Rabinowitz-"a squalid little defrauder," Frankfurter called him -who was arrested on a warrant charging him with counterfeiting postage stamps. He was picked up in his one-room Manhattan office, which the arresting U.S. Treasury officers promptly searched. The majority opinion rested on the contention that the search & seizure of stamps as evidence were incidental to a valid arrest and did not extend beyond the room used for unlawful purposes...
...right to search an arrested person and to take the stuff on top of the desk at which he sits has a justification of necessity which does not eat away the great principle of the Fourth Amendment. But to assume that this exception of a search incidental to arrest permits a freehanded search without warrant is to subvert the purposes of the Fourth Amendment by making the exception displace the principle ... By the Bill of Rights, the founders of this country subordinated police action to legal restraints not in order to convenience the guilty but to protect the innocent . . . They...
...noon the next day it seemed that half the citizens in town were out on the roads northeast of the city to watch the hunt. A good many, armed to the teeth and accompanied by a rabble of house dogs, joined in the search. The skirmishing took on the look of a Guatemalan revolution. Civil Air Patrol planes flew low. Cops, zookeepers, deputy sheriffs, volunteer gunmen and a detachment of Marine reservists with M-i rifles and walkie-talkie radios scoured the scrub-oak thickets, flushing out rabbits, house cats, and, occasionally, each other...