Wolf V. Colorado Case Summary

The Wolf v Colorado case questions the fourth amendment. 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 seizure according to the fourth amendment, and shouldn’t be used against him. However, the court ruled six judges to three the fourth amendment did not disallow the use of illegally gathered evidence in criminal trials.
Wolf was trialed twice, he and his attorney argued and protested during both trials of the …show more content…
The evidence presented was too defining to not believe. The Colorado Supreme court backed the use of their evidence with the fact that, “in 1925 that evidence secured through searches and seizures in violation of the Colorado Constitution was still admissible in the state’s courts.” (Cortner) Thus, the court was allowed to use the evidence from the search and it would be accepted, even though done illegally, since it was under the law of Colorado. Meanwhile, Wolf and his attorney’s argument and objection was that the evidenced shouldn’t be introduced or yet only allowed to be used. They evidence were products of an illegal search and seizure and according to the Constitution under the Fourth Amendment he was supposed to be protected from