Home > Great American Court Cases > Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden

Legal Citation: 387 U.S. 294 (1967)

Petitioner
Warden, Maryland Penitentiary

Respondent
Bennie Joe Hayden

Petitioner's Claim
A police officer may seize mere evidence—evidence that is not an instrumentality of a crime, the fruits of a crime, or contraband—found in the course of a valid warrantless search conducted in a criminal suspect's home immediately after a hot pursuit of the suspect.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
Franklin Goldstein, Assistant Attorney General of Maryland

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
Albert R. Turnbull

Justices for the Court
Hugo Lafayette Black, William J. Brennan, Jr. (writing for the Court), Abe Fortas, John Marshall Harlan II, Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart, Earl Warren, Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting
William O. Douglas

Place
Washington, D.C.

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