Supreme Court of the United States
Samson v. California
This writing
- Type
- Dissent
- Filed
- June 19, 2006
- Case
- Samson v. California
- Case status
- Decided
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Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Souter and Justice Breyer join, dissenting. Our prior cases have consistently assumed that the Fourth Amendment provides some degree of protection for probationers and parolees. The protection is not as robust as that afforded to ordinary citizens; we have held that probationers’ lowered expectation of privacy may justify their warrantless search up…
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Other writings in this case
| Type | Author | Filed |
|---|---|---|
| Opinion | Clarence Thomas | June 19, 2006 |
| Opinion of the Court | Not attributed | June 19, 2006 |