Illinois v. McArthur

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Illinois v. McArthur
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 1, 2000 Decided February 20, 2001
Full case name	Illinois v. Charles McArthur
Citations	531 U.S. 326 (more) 121 S. Ct. 946; 148 L. Ed. 2d 838; 2001 U.S. LEXIS 962
Case history
Prior	People v. McArthur, 304 Ill. App. 3d 395, 713 N.E.2d 93 (App. 4th Dist. 1999); leave to appeal denied, 185 Ill. 2d 651, 720 N.E.2d 1101 (1999); cert. granted, 529 U.S. 1097 (2000).
Holding
Police officers who had probable cause to believe an individual was hiding drugs in his home, and who blocked the individual from entering while awaiting a search warrant, did not violate the Fourth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Breyer, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg,
Concurrence	Souter
Dissent	Stevens
Laws applied
US const. amend. IV

Illinois v. McArthur, 531 U.S. 326 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court case decided in 2001. The case concerned the extent of the government’s power to limit an individual’s complete control of his or her home pending the arrival of a search warrant. A divided Court held that the search was not unconstitutional because there was a reasonable law-enforcement need to acquire a warrant, namely, to prevent the potential destruction of evidence within the home.^[1]