Court Opinion

ID: 9422846
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:04:49.668773+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:39.940621
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Harlan,
concurring.
But for Ker v. California, 374 U. S. 23, I would have voted to affirm the judgment of the Texas court. Given Ker, I cannot escape the conclusion that to do so would tend to “relax Fourth Amendment standards ... in derogation of law enforcement standards in the federal system . . .” (my concurring opinion in Ker, supra, at 45-46, emphasis added). Contrary to what is suggested in the dissenting opinion of my Brother Clark in the present case (post, p. 118, note 1), the standards laid down in Giordenello v. United States, 357 U. S. 480, did in my view reflect constitutional requirements. Being unwilling to relax those standards for federal prosecutions, I concur in the opinion of the Court.