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" We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the Government should play an ignoble part. "
Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor Appropriation Bill for ... - Page 65
by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee - 1933 - 122 pages
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 343

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1952 - 1030 pages
...philosophy of life that his years in the Army of the Potomac taught him that led Mr. Justice Holmes to deem it "a less evil that some criminals should escape...that the Government should play an ignoble part." Olmstead v. United States, supra, at 470. Suppose it be true that through "dirty business" it is easier...
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Prohibition Still at Its Worst

Irving Fisher, Herbert Bruce Brougham - 1928 - 398 pages
...zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. " Justice Holmes in his dissenting opinion remarked, "We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less...that the Government should play an ignoble part." This echoes the words of Justice Brandeis that "If the Government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds...
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Service Bulletin, Volume 15

1931 - 490 pages
...pay for other crimes, when they are the means by which the evidence is to be obtained. I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the Government should play an ignoble part" - Olmstead vs. US in wire-tapping case. "There is nothing I more deprecate than the use of the 14th...
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The Summons, Volume 2

1928 - 298 pages
...an odious crime against state law than when inciting to the disregard of its own. ... It is a lesser evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part." President Walter Sherman Gifford of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. summed up the results of...
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Statistics of Land-grant Colleges and Universities, Issues 30-38

United States. Office of Education - 1937 - 1296 pages
...ought not to use evidence obtained, and only obtainable, by a criminal act. ... I think it a lesser evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part." And now listen to the words of Justice Brandeis: . . . "Heretofore, force and violence were the only...
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Bulletin, Issues 30-38

United States. Office of Education - 1938 - 1270 pages
...ought not to use evidence obtained, and only obtainable, by a criminal act. ... I think it a lesser evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part." Voice And now listen to the words of Justice Brandeis: . . . mdeis - "Heretofore, force and violence...
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To Authorize Wire Tapping: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 1 of the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 - 1941 - 494 pages
...desirable that the Government should not itself foster and pay for other crimes, when they are the meaus by which the evidence is to be obtained. * * » We...than that the Government should play an ignoble part (277 US 438, 470,471). Justice Holmes referred to wire tapping as "such dirty business * * * such iniquities."...
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Proposed Amendments to the Securities Act of 1933 and to the ..., Volume 5

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1942 - 264 pages
...principle of the common law is given in a dissenting opinion of the late Supreme Court Justice Holmes : We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminal should escape and that the Government should play an ignoble part. A more recent statement...
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on the Judiciary

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1955 - 388 pages
...life that his years in the Army of the Potomac taught him that led Mr. Justice Holmes to deem it ,n less evil that some criminals should escape than that the Government should play an ignoble part.' Olmstead v. Cnited States, supra, at 470. "* * * My deepest feeling against giving legal sanction to...
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Wiretapping

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1955 - 388 pages
...life that his years in the Army of the Potomac taught him that led Mr. Justice Holmes to deem it .» less evil that some criminals should escape than that the Government should play an ignoble part.' Olmstead v. United States, supra, at 470. "• * * My deepest feeling against giving legal sanction...
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