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...Odious General Warrant. Dissents were violent. Wrote Justice Murphy: "The Court today has resurrected and approved, in effect, the use of the odious general warrant or writ of assistance." Most crimes, he pointed out, have connected with them some small object, and a search for it inevitably becomes a general exploratory ransacking...
...legal search warrant, since it must specify what is to be searched for and seized, "is not only unnecessary; it is a hindrance." As for the officers' good faith, "history has shown good police intentions to be inadequate safeguards for the precious rights...
Only objects "in plain sight," three dissents thought, could logically be seized. This did not satisfy Justice Jackson. He would rigidly limit the search to the body of the person arrested. Said Jackson: "It would seem a little capricious to say that a gun on top of a newspaper could be taken but a newspaper on top of a gun insulated it from seizure...
Justice Frankfurter was caustic: "If only the Harrises were involved, one might be brutally indifferent. ... [But] what is involved far transcends the fate of some sordid offender. . . . How can there be freedom of thought or freedom of speech or freedom of religion if the police can, without warrant, search your house and mine from garret to cellar merely because they are executing a warrant of arrest? . . . Yesterday the justifying document was an illicit ration book, tomorrow it may be some suspect piece of literature...
...great a speed would be ... progressive deterioration; and that is our danger today. If the poetry of the rest of this century takes the line of development which seems to me . . the right course, it will discover new and more elaborate patterns of a diction now established. ... In this search it might have much to learn from [Milton] the greatest master of freedom within form in our language, outside the theater. ... It might also learn that the music of verse is strongest in poetry which has a definite meaning expressed in the properest words...