Court Opinion

ID: 9778664
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:15:34.773636+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:12.453285
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PALMORE, Judge
(dissenting).
I dissent from that portion of the opinion which holds that the constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure is of no avail if the search was conducted by a private citizen not acting at the instance of an officer or agency of the state. When the state condones an illegal search by using its fruits in a criminal prosecution it becomes an accessory, and bears the ultimate responsibility for depriving the offended person of that which Const. § 10 and the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States have guaranteed him. If only in this small way, I am proud to join the company of Brandéis and Holmes. Cf. dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Bran-déis in Burdeau v. McDowell, 256 U.S. 465, 41 S.Ct. 574, 65 L.Ed. 1948, 13 A.L.R. 1159 (1921).