Brown v. Illinois
- Decided
- June 26, 1975
- Docket
- 73-6650
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
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What later courts said
- holding that evidence obtained as a result of an illegal arrest in violation of the Fourth Amend ment must be suppressed — United States v. James Howard Van Metre, United States of America v. James Howard Van Metre (1998)
- holding that statements voluntarily made after Miranda warnings were nevertheless inadmissible as tainted by an unlawful arrest — United States v. Bailey (2014)
- holding that police misconduct had a “quality of purposefulness,” and was “calculated to cause surprise, fright, and confusion.” — Beaver v. State (2003)
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 Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case lies at the crossroads of the Fourth and the Fifth Amendments. Petitioner was arrested without probable cause and without a warrant. He was given, in full, the warnings prescribed by Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436 (1966). Thereafter, while in custody, he made two inculpatory statements. The issue is whether evidence of those statements was properly admitted, or should have been excluded, in petitioner’s subsequent trial for murder in state court. Expressed another way, the issue is whether the statements were to be excluded [*592] as the fruit of the illegal arrest, or were admissible because the giving of the Miranda warnings sufficiently attenuated the taint of the arrest. See Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U. S. 471 (1963). The Fourth Amendment, of course, has been held to be applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment. Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U. S. 643 (1961).
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Brown v. Illinois, 422 U.S. 590 (1975)Read the full opinion
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