Watkins+V.+United+States

=Watkins v. United States=
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Who: John T. Watkins What was the name of the case: Watkins v. United States When: June 17,1957

What happened: The US Supreme decided that the Watkins case was just like the four other court cases that happened the same way. That day was called “Red Monday.” The Supreme Court claimed that the police officers had no right to invade Watkins house because they did not have a search warrant which is unconstitutional. This is protected under the Fourth Amendment. So whatever the police officers claimed that they found would not harm the case because the case is not on what they found, it is why they were there in the first place. The police officers went to John Watkins house because they found that he had evidence that they were trespassing on his property to find drugs. The police said that they had a search warrant. Which they did, but they did not find drugs they found unauthorized weapons but they can not press charges because they were looking for illegal drugs. So the Supreme Court ruled in favor of John T. Watkins.