Simmons v. United States
- Decided
- March 18, 1968
- Docket
- 55
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
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What later courts said
- ruling that evidence would be excluded if pretrial identification procedures “give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification” — State v. Michaels (1994)
- holding that a defendant's assertion of ownership in seized property at a pre-trial suppression motion could not later be used against him to prove guilt — UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joel CRETACCI, Defendant-Appellant (1995)
- holding that testimony given out of the presence of the jury in support of a pretrial constitutional claim cannot be used at trial — United States v. Norman Russell Baker, Jr. (1988)
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 Harlan delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case presents issues arising out of the petitioners’ trial and conviction in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois for the armed robbery of a federally insured savings and loan association.
The evidence at trial showed that at about 1:45 p. m. [*380] on February 27, 1964, two men entered a Chicago savings and loan association. One of them pointed a gun at a teller and ordered her to put money into a sack which the gunman supplied. The men remained in the bank about five minutes. After they left, a bank employee rushed to the street and saw one of the men sitting on the passenger side of a departing white 1960 Thunderbird automobile with a large scrape on the right door. Within an hour police located in the vicinity a car matching this description. They discovered that it belonged to a Mrs. Rey, sister-in-law of petitioner Simmons. She told the police that she had loaned the car for the afternoon to her brother, William Andrews.
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Simmons v. United States, 390 U.S. 377 (1968)Read the full opinion
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