Katz v. United States
- Decided
- December 18, 1967
- Docket
- 35
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
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What later courts said
- holding that fourth amendment protects people in places where they have a subjective expectation of privacy that is objectively reasonable — Goldberg v. State (2002)
- holding that the Fourth Amendment protects against "seizures" of oral statements obtained by electronic surveillance — State v. Young (2006)
- holding that the question whether a defendant's expectation of privacy is legitimate has two components: (1) whether the defendant had a subjective expectation of privacy; and (2 — State v. Ross (2001)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
Mr. Justice Stewart delivered the opinion of the Court.
The petitioner was convicted in the District Court for the Southern District of California under an eight-count indictment charging him with transmitting wagering information by telephone from Los Angeles to Miami and Boston, in violation of a federal statute.[1] At trial the Government was permitted, over the petitioner’s objection, to introduce evidence of the petitioner’s end of telephone conversations, overheard by FBI agents who had attached an electronic listening and recording device to the outside of the public telephone booth from which he had placed his calls. In affirming his conviction, the Court of Appeals rejected the contention that the recordings had been obtained in violation of the Fourth Amend [*349] ment, because “[tjhere was no physical entrance into the area occupied by [the petitioner].”[2] We granted certiorari in order to consider the constitutional questions thus presented.[3]
The petitioner has phrased those questions as follows:
Statutes cited
- 18 U.S.C. § 1084
- 47 U.S.C. § 409
- 49 U.S.C. § 46
Cite this
Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967)Read the full opinion
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