Court Opinion

ID: 9456307
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:48:35.790443+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:55.638020
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BAZELON, Chief Judge
(concurring in the result).
I am inclined to agree with Judge Wright, infra, that the nighttime search of Dorman’s apartment was not exempted from the fourth amendment’s warrant requirement by Warden v. Hayden, 387 U.S. 294, 87 S.Ct. 1642, 18 L.Ed.2d 782 (1967). I need not reach this question, however, because I conclude that any error in admitting the fruit of this search was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, 87 S.Ct. 824, 17 L.Ed.2d 705 (1967). Almost from the time of the robbery itself, the evidence implicating Dorman was overwhelming (e. g., the abandoned probation papers and the eyewitness identifications). Just as this evidence reduced the need for Hat/dew-like pursuit of a fleeing, unknown suspect, it also establishes that any error here was harmless under Chapman. See Harrington v. California, 395 U.S. 250, 89 S.Ct. 1726, 23 L.Ed.2d 284 (1969).