Wolf v. Colorado

Supreme Court held in Wolf v. Colorado (1949) that “security of one’s privacy against arbitrary intrusion by the police—which is at the core of the Fourth Amendment—is basic to a free society.” However, that decision did not extend to state courts. During the next decade, approximately half of the…

…the Supreme Court’s decision in Wolf v. Colorado (1949), which recognized the right to privacy as “incorporated” but not the federal exclusionary rule. Because of the inherent vagueness of the Fourth Amendment, the scope of the exclusionary rule has been subject to interpretation by the courts, including the Supreme Court,…

In the criminal case of Wolf v. Colorado (1949), for example, he spoke for the court in condemning illegal seizure of evidence by state officials, but he ruled that the “due process of law” clause of the 14th Amendment (1868) to the U.S. Constitution did not require a state court…

His dissent in Wolf v. Colorado, 338 U.S. 25 (1949), in which the court held that illegally seized criminal evidence was admissible in state (though not in federal) courts, was vindicated when a later court overruled the Wolf decision (Mapp v. Ohio, 1961).

…voted with the majority in Wolf v. Colorado (1949) and Irvine v. California (1954), both of which ruled that illegally obtained evidence may be admissible in state courts, and upheld the conviction of (and denial of speech rights to) American communists who were arrested for violating the prohibition against advocating…