U.S. v. GEORGE

No. 767, Docket 91-1524.

975 F.2d 72 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Russell R. GEORGE, aka Rusty, and Pamela A. Johnson-Sherman, Defendants, Francis R. LaJoice, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 17, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John-Claude Charbonneau, Asst. U.S. Atty., Rutland, Vt. (Charles A. Caruso, U.S. Atty., Gary G. Shattuck, Asst. U.S. Atty., of counsel), for appellant.

Carolyn Browne Anderson, Rutland, Vt. (Abell, Kenlan, Schwiebert & Hall, P.C., of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges, and STEWART, District Judge.


CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

Because everyone has some kind of secret or other, most people are anxious that their personal privacy be respected. For that very human reason the general warrant, permitting police agents to ransack one's personal belongings, has long been considered abhorrent to fundamental notions of privacy and liberty. See Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States, 282 U.S. 344, 357, 51 S.Ct. 153, 158, 75 L.Ed. 374...

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