UNITED STATES EX REL. WRIGHT v. WOODS

No. 18045.

432 F.2d 1143 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Charles A. WRIGHT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Joseph WOODS, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

October 8, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Adam, Howard D. Geter, Sr., Howard D. Geter, Jr., Edward M. Genson, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

John R. McClory, Asst. State's Atty., Edward V. Hanrahan, State's Atty., Chicago, Ill., for respondent-appellee.

Before HASTINGS, Senior Circuit Judge, and CUMMINGS and PELL, Circuit Judges.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

This case is on appeal from the district court's denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus. The question presented by the petition is whether under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, police without a search or arrest warrant may forcibly enter an apartment being used solely for gambling in order to make arrests for a gambling offense.

At petitioner's bench trial, evidence seized at the time of his arrest was introduced over...

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