Court Opinion

ID: 9424011
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:09:54.124683+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:47.539320
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Harlan,
concurring.
I join the opinion of the Court, with one reservation. The Court states in dictum that, because fingerprinting may be scheduled for a time convenient to the citizen, “the general requirement that the authorization of a judicial officer be obtained in advance of detention would seem not to admit of any exception in the fingerprinting context.” Ante, this page. I cannot concur in so sweeping a proposition. There may be circumstances, falling short of the “dragnet” procedures employed in this case, where compelled submission to fingerprinting would not amount to a violation of the Fourth Amendment even in the *729absence of a warrant, and I would leave that question open.