WRIGHT

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (43 total)

• Wells v. State, 402 So. 2d 402 (Fla. 1981)
  …e majority adopts the minority and waning position in this country which holds that there are simply no fourth amendment rights whatsoever in a prison environment.1 [*407] See United States v. Hitchcock, 467 F. 2d 1107 (9th Cir. 1972), cert. denied, 410 U.S. 916, 93 S.Ct. 973, 35 L.Ed.2d 279 (1973) (no reasonable expectation of privacy in jail cell); United States v. Myers, 431 F.Supp. 64 (W.D.Okla.1976) (prison not a protected area under fourth amendment); Hoitt v. Vitek, 361 F.Supp. 1238 (D.N.H.1973), aff…
• Hudson v. Palmer, 468 U.S. 517 (U.S. 1984)
  …5 U. S. 932 (1978). The Second and Ninth Circuits, however, have held that the Fourth Amendment does not apply in a prison cell. See Christman v. Skinner, 468 F. 2d 723 (CA2 1972); United States v. Hitchcock, 467 F. 2d 1107 (CA9 1972), cert. denied, 410 U. S. 916 (1973). In Lanza v. New York, 370 U. S. 139, 143-144 (1962), a plurality of the Court termed as “at best a novel argument” the assertion that a prison “is a place where [one] can claim constitutional immunity from search or seizure of his person, h…
• United States v. Hearst, 563 F.2d 1331 (9th Cir. 1977)
  …wever, have treated Katz and Lanza as compatible. United States v. Dawson, 516 F. 2d 796, 805 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 855, 96 S.Ct. 104, 46 L.Ed.2d 80 (1975); United States v. Hitchcock, 467 F. 2d 1107, 1108 (9th Cir. 1972), cert. denied, 410 U.S. 916, 93 S.Ct. 973, 35 L.Ed.2d 279 (1973). Further, these cases relied principally on Katz which unquestionably continues to have precedential value, in developing a rule that defeats appellant’s Fourth Amendment claim in the present case: An intrusion…