Andresen v. Maryland

Andresen v. Maryland
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 25, 1976 Decided June 29, 1976
Full case name	Peter C. Andresen, Petitioner v. State of Maryland
Citations	427 U.S. 463 (more) 96 S. Ct. 2737; 49 L. Ed. 2d 627
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Certiorari to the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Holding
The searches and seizures were not "unreasonable" in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Blackmun, joined by Burger, Stewart, White, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens
Dissent	Brennan
Dissent	Marshall
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. IV

Andresen v. Maryland, 427 U.S. 463 (1976), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that search of petitioner's offices for business records, their seizure, and subsequent introduction into evidence did not offend the Fifth Amendment's proscription that "[n]o person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." Although the records seized contained statements that petitioner voluntarily had committed to writing, he was never required to say anything.