Warden v. Hayden

Warden v. Hayden
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 12, 1967 Decided May 29, 1967
Full case name	Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
Citations	387 U.S. 294 (more) 87 S. Ct. 1642; 18 L. Ed. 2d 782
Case history
Prior	Defendant convicted; conviction reversed on appeal, Hayden v. Warden, 363 F.2d 647 (4th Cir. 1966); cert. granted, 385 U.S. 926 (1966).
Subsequent	Conviction upheld
Holding
The distinction prohibiting seizure of items of only evidential value and allowing seizure of instrumentalities, fruits, or contraband is no longer accepted as being required by the Fourth Amendment
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 · Abe Fortas
Case opinions
Majority	Brennan, joined by Clark, Harlan, Stewart, White
Concurrence	Black
Concurrence	Fortas, joined by Warren
Dissent	Douglas
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. IV
This case overturned a previous ruling or rulings
Gouled v. United States (1921)

Warden v. Hayden, 387 U.S. 294 (1967), was a United States Supreme Court case that held that 'mere evidence' may be seized and held as evidence in a trial, allowing such evidence obtained in a search to be used. This finding reversed previous Supreme Court decisions such as Boyd v. United States which had held that search warrants may not be used as a means of gaining access to a man's house or office and papers solely for the purpose of making search to secure evidence to be used against him in a criminal or penal proceeding...^[1]