Source: https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/270-f-578-s-594650214
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 18:14:29+00:00

Document:
Party Name: UNITED STATES v. KRAUS et al. SAME v. JOSEPH AJELLO CO., Inc., et al. SAME v. BORNSTEIN et al.
George L. Donnellan, of New York City, for petitioners.
David V. Cahill and Robert A. Peattie, both of New York City, for the United States.
Except for the character of the documents seized, the law in cases of unlawful searches is now well settled. Weeks v. U.S., 232 U.S. 383, 34 Sup.Ct. 341, 58 L.Ed. 652, L.R.A. 1915B, 834, Ann. Cas. 1915C, 1177; Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. U.S., 251 U.S. 385, 40 Sup.Ct. 182, 64 L.Ed. 319; Flagg v. U.S., 233 F. 481, 147 C.C.A. 367; Veeder v. U.S., 252 F. 414, 164 C.C.A. 338; United States v. Mills (C.C.) 185 F. 318. When seized, they must be returned, with them all copies taken while the officers retained their illegal possession. Furthermore, the prosecution may not use at the trial or in its preparation any information obtained from their scrutiny. Unless, therefore, the respondents can justify, the documents must be returned. They do justify: First, on the ground of the petitioners' consent, which presents an issue of fact; and, second, on the ground that, as the petitioners were wholesale liquor dealers and had taken out basic permits, the records kept by them were subject to inspection under sections 10 and 34 of title 2 of the Volstead Act and section 3318 of the Revised Statutes, and, if to inspection, then to the enforcement of that right without process, even to the extent of seizure. Farther they insist that, because the records were not properly kept, those papers were included within their powers which should have been transcribed into the records.
concessions that they had the right to break and enter, though the petitioners wrongfully refused to allow them to inspect, nor does it either follow that they had the right to seize the records and papers after an inspection.

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