Participant Info
- Case
- Wolf v. Colorado
- Citation
- 338 US 25
- Type
- Concurring
- Year
- 1949
- Description
For the Court’s majority, Justice Felix Frankfurter writes an opinion in Wolf v. Colorado dismissing Black’s dissent in Adamson, saying that the “issue is closed,” but holding that because of “conception of human rights enshrined in the history and the basic constitutional documents of English-speaking peoples,” a state’s methods of police search and seizure are subject to the “the guaranty of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Black writes a concurrence in which he agrees with the result in the opinion but re-states his belief expressed in Adamson that adoption of the 14th Amendment made the 4th Amendment’s prohibition of “unreasonable searches and seizures” entirely enforceable against the states.”
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