Dahda v. United States
U.S. Supreme Court · decided May 14, 2018 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- May 14, 2018
- Docket
- No. 17-43
- Argued
- February 21, 2018
- Term
- October Term 2017
- Vote
- 8–0
- Majority author
- Justice Breyer
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
How the Justices voted
- Majority
- Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Kennedy, Justice Thomas, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer (wrote), Justice Alito, Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan
Oral argument transcript and advocates
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2017 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321, 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus DAHDA v. UNITED STATES CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT No. 17–43. Argued February 21, 2018—Decided May 14, 2018* Under federal law, a judge normally may issue a wiretap order permit- ting the interception of communications only “within the territorial jurisdiction of the court in which the judge is sitting.” 18 U. S. C. §2518(3). Here, a judge for the District of Kansas authorized nine wiretap Orders as part of a Government investigation of a suspected drug distribution ring in Kansas. For the most part, the Government intercepted communications from a listening post within Kansas. But each Order also contained a sentence purporting to authorize in- terception outside of Kansas. Based on that authorization, the Gov- ernment intercepted additional communications from a listening post in Missouri. Following the investigation, petitioners Los and Roose- velt Dahda were indicted for…
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