Beck v. Ohio

"Beck v. Ohio", 379 U.S. 89 (1964) is a United States Supreme Court decision holding that the police arrested the defendant without probable cause, and therefore the clearing house slips found on his person after taking him to the police station were found as part of an unconstitutional search. The lack of specific facts about the defendant led the court to determine that probable cause did not exist. There was only one officer who knew what the defendant looked like and that officer had received some information from an informant that the defendant was involved in games of chance, but there was no evidence as to the reliability of the informant, nor did the informant indicate the time or the place where the defendant would appear.

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* [http://www.enfacto.com/case/U.S./379/89/ Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. 89 (1964)] (opinion full text).