Court Opinion

ID: 9423817
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:09:09.011129+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:46.253576
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Harlan,
concurring.
I wish to state in a few words my reasons for joining in the dismissal of this writ as improvidently granted. For reasons stated in the dissenting opinion of my Brother Douglas I agree that the dispositive federal issue in this case is whether the petitioner used an unreasonable amount of force in resisting what on this record must be regarded as an illegal attempt by the police to search his person. I find this record too opaque to permit any satisfactory adjudication of that question. See Rescue Army v. Municipal Court, 331 U. S. 549, 568-575.