The government ought not to use evidence obtained and only obtainable, by a criminal act...for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals could escape than that, the Government should play an ignoble part.

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Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Olmstead v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 277, 4 June 1928, pp. 438-485. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/277/438/.