![]() Thompson and Steinberg had been fugitives from justice for about two years when agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation discovered them, in the company of Kremen, Coleman and another, at a secluded cabin near the village of Twain Harte, California. Because of the unusual character of the search and seizure here involved, we granted certiorari, without, however, limiting the writ. Petitioners were found guilty, and on appeal their convictions were sustained, one judge dissenting. In addition, it charged petitioners Kremen andĬoleman with harboring Steinberg, also a fugitive from justice, and with conspiring to commit that offense. 3, and with conspiring to commit that offense in violation of 18 U.S.C. The indictment charged the three petitioners with relieving, comforting, and assisting one Thompson, a fugitive from justice, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Of petitioners' various contentions we find the one relating to the validity of the search and seizure made by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation dispositive of this case, and we therefore need not consider the others. On the brief were Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Tompkins, Harold D. Maroney argued the cause for the United States. Norman Leonard argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioners. Held: Objections to the search and seizure were adequately raised and preserved the search and seizure were illegal and admission into evidence against each of the petitioners of some of the items seized in the cabin rendered the guilty verdicts illegal. Some of the evidence so seized was introduced at the trial of petitioners in a federal court, and petitioners were convicted of certain federal offenses. Without search warrants, the officers searched the cabin where petitioners were found, seized the entire contents of the cabin and removed them some 200 miles away for purposes of examination. The three petitioners were arrested by federal officers, who had an arrest warrant for only one of them.
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