| United States. Internal Revenue Service - 1971 - 816 pages
...legitimately protected by the Fourth Amendment is involved," for that amendment affords no protection to "a wrongdoer's misplaced belief that a person to whom...voluntarily confides his wrongdoing will not reveal it." Hoffa v. United States, at 302. No warrant to "search and seize" is required in such circumstances,... | |
| United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration - 1976 - 326 pages
...undercover agent 1ยง to obtain incriminating evidence against a defendant The Constitution does not protect a wrongdoer's misplaced belief that a person to whom he voluntarily confides his wrongdoing win not reveal it 241.42 UM of Investigative Equipment Special agents will refer to and abide by the... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1978 - 558 pages
...over to the FBI for use as evidence? In Hoffa v. United States, 385 U,S. 293 (1966), it was stated: "Neither this Court nor any member of it has ever...voluntarily confides his wrongdoing will not reveal it. Indeed the Court unanimously rejected that very contention in Lopes v. United States, 373 US 427 (1963)."... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1979 - 1960 pages
...Revenue Service, and did not make the continued examination of the records an unreasonable search."*" member of it has ever expressed the view that the...voluntarily confides his wrongdoing will not reveal it." Id. at 302. See Lopez v. United States, 373 US 427, 437-40 (1963). Although a defendant may unwittingly... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1982 - 948 pages
...United States, 385 US, at 302, for example, recognizes that the Constitution affords no protection to "a wrongdoer's misplaced belief that a person to whom...voluntarily confides his wrongdoing will not reveal it," even if that person is an undisclosed informer. And in Weatherford v. Bursey, 429 US 545, 557 (1977),... | |
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