Beck v. Ohio

Beck v. Ohio
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 15, 1964 Decided November 23, 1964
Full case name	Beck v Ohio
Citations	379 U.S. 89 (more) 85 S. Ct. 223; 13 L. Ed. 2d 142
Holding
No probable cause for petitioner's arrest having been shown, the arrest, and therefore necessarily the search for and seizure of the slips incident thereto, were invalid under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Arthur Goldberg
Case opinions
Majority	Stewart, joined by Warren, Douglas, Brennan, White, Goldberg
Dissent	Clark, joined by Black
Dissent	Harlan
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. IV

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Beck v. Ohio

Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. 89 (1964), is a United States Supreme Court decision concerning evidence obtained as part of an unlawful arrest. Reversing the Ohio Supreme Court's decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Ohio police arrested defendant without probable cause, so the criminally-punishable evidence found on his person during an incidental search was inadmissible. Accordingly, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated defendant's conviction.