Katz V. Katz Case Study

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Facts FBI agents arrested Katz when the agents overheard him transmitting illegal gambling information in a public telephone from Los Angeles to Miami and Boston. The agents attached an electronic listening and recording device outside the telephone booth where Katz placed his calls, and the agents record the end of the conversations from the defendant. Procedural History Katz disagree that the evidence from the recordings of the telephone conversations will be used in trial against him since it was a violation of his privacy rights on the Fourth Amendment, however the evidence was used on the trial. The defendant appealed to the Court of Appeals, which it was rejected because the Fourth Amendment right to protect on an unreasonable search

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