Supreme Court of the United States, 1964

Clinton v. Virginia

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided May 4, 1964 · Clark, White

377 U.S. 158; 84 S. Ct. 1186; 12 L. Ed. 2d 213; 1964 U.S. LEXIS 1366 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Calvin H. Childress argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner., D. Gardiner Tyler, Assistant Attorney General of Virginia, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the briefs was Robert Y. Button, Attorney General of Virginia.

Cases that cite this one

31 later published cases cite this decision. The 25 that cite it most often are listed here.

State v. Tanner (Or. 1987)
Desist v. United States (Supreme Court of the United States 1969)
Donald Croom Beatty, Jr. v. United States (5th Cir. 1967)
State v. Cartwright (Or. 1966)
United States v. Massiano (United States District Court for the District of Delaware 1965)
State v. Kent (Utah 1967)
State v. Rendon (Tex. Crim. App. 2015)
United States v. Kaliski (United States Court of Military Appeals 1993)
United States v. Perez (District Court, N.D. Ohio 1977)
United States of America Ex Rel. Burton N. Pugach v. Hon. Vincent R. Mancusi, Warden, Attica State Prison, Attica, New York (2d Cir. 1969)
United States v. Samuel Desist, Frank Dioguardi, Jean Claude Lefranc, Jean Nebbia and Anthony Sutera (2d Cir. 1967)
Hajdu v. State (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1966)
Melvin Jones, Harold James Cutno and Clifford John Woods v. United States (5th Cir. 1965)
People v. Berger (District Court, S.D. New York 1965)
Gallimore v. Commonwealth (Va. 1993)
People v. Kaiser (N.Y. 1967)
Rendon, Michael Eric (Tex. App. 2015)
Johnson v. Commonwealth (Va. Ct. App. 2003)
Pueblo v. Ortiz Rodríguez (Supreme Court of Puerto Rico 1999)
Pueblo v. Ortiz Rodriguez (Supreme Court of Puerto Rico 1999)
Pueblo v. Rivera Colón (Supreme Court of Puerto Rico 1991)
People v. Dunn (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1990)
Manning v. Commonwealth (Va. Ct. App. 1986)
Stewart v. Commonwealth (Va. 1983)
People v. Price (N.Y. 1981)

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Opinion

377 U.S. 158 (1964)

CLINTON
v.
VIRGINIA.

No. 294.

Supreme Court of United States.

Argued April 27, 1964.Decided May 4, 1964.CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA.

Calvin H. Childress argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

D. Gardiner Tyler, Assistant Attorney General of Virginia, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the briefs was Robert Y. Button, Attorney General of Virginia.

PER CURIAM.

The motion to strike the supplemental brief on behalf of the respondent is denied. The judgment is reversed. Silverman v. United States, 365 U. S. 505; Ker v. California, 374 U. S. 23.

MR. JUSTICE CLARK, concurring:

Since the Court finds that the "spiked" mike used by the police officers penetrated petitioner's premises sufficiently to be an actual trespass thereof, I join in the judgment.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE dissents.

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