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COOPER v. CALIFORNIA

No. 103.

386 U.S. 58 (1967)

COOPER v. CALIFORNIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 20, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Traynor, by appointment of the Court, 384 U.S. 948, argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner.

Albert W. Harris, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of California, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, and Edward P. O'Brien, Deputy Attorney General.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner was convicted in a California state court of selling heroin to a police informer. The conviction rested in part on the introduction in evidence of a small piece of a brown paper sack seized by police without a warrant from the glove compartment of an automobile which police, upon petitioner's arrest, had impounded and were holding in a garage. The search occurred a week after the arrest of petitioner...

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