CHAMBERS v. COX

No. 5122.

400 U.S. 870 (1970)

CHAMBERS v. COX, PENITENTIARY SUPERINTENDENT.

Supreme Court of United States.

October 19, 1970.


Certiorari denied.

MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN, dissenting.

I dissent. I think we should take this case and decide the important question it presents of the res judicata effect of a federal habeas court's determination that evidence used to obtain a state court conviction was improperly admitted because it was the fruit of an unconstitutional search and seizure.

Petitioner was convicted in a Virginia state court of unlawful possession of narcotics seized...

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