Wolf Case: The Wolf V. Colorado

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The Wolf v Colorado case questions both the fourth and fourteenth amendments. The argument was about whether it was against and illegal for the police to search and seizure Wolf’s medical office and obtain daybooks without any warrant. The reason for the unauthorized raid was because a women had called 911 about having medical complications after having had an illegal abortion. She named Wolf as the doctor who performed the procedure and arrested him under the conspiracy to perform an abortion. The information contained in the daybook led to police interrogated other women who had illegal abortions and admitted Dr. Wolf was the one who performed them. Wolf made the case that the evidence they were using against him was an illegal search and

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