(DOWNLOAD) "Mccray v. Illinois" by Supreme Court of the United States ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Mccray v. Illinois
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 20, 1967
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
Description
The petitioner was arrested in Chicago, Illinois, on the morning of January 16, 1964, for possession of narcotics. The Chicago police officers who made the arrest found a package containing heroin on his person and he was indicted for its unlawful possession. Prior to trial he filed a motion to suppress the heroin as evidence against him, claiming that the police had acquired it in an unlawful search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. See Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643. After a hearing, the court denied the motion, and the petitioner was subsequently convicted upon the evidence of the heroin the arresting officers had found in his possession. The judgment of conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Illinois, and we granted certiorari to consider the petitioners claim that the hearing on his motion to suppress was constitutionally defective.