307 U.S. 621
Docket No. 939.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 5, 1939.
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1939-06-05
1 counsel of record
Key passage — most relied on by later courts
“question whether the trial court properly received in evidence intercepted telephone communications.”
quoted by 1 later decision, including Weiss v. United States
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1939-06-05
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1993
1 district · 1 state decisions
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¶1Messrs. ' Theodore Kiendl, Lloyd Paul Stryker, and Jacob W. Friedman for petitioners. Solicitor General Jackson, and Messrs.' William W. Barron, George F. Kneip, Fred E. Strine, and W. Marvin Smith for the United States.
¶2Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted, limited to the question whether the trial court properly received in evidence intercepted telephone communications.