Brief for the United States, Wong Sun v. United States/Statement/The opinion of the court of appeals

by Archibald Cox, Herbert J. Miller, Jr., Beatrice Rosenberg and J. F. Bishop

II. The Opinion of the Court of Appeals

The court of appeals, one judge dissenting, affirmed the convictions. The court concluded that the arrest of each petitioner had been based on information not known to be reliable, and hence was without probable cause, but held that the illegality of the arrests did not render inadmissible the voluntary confessions, or preclude the agents from using information obtained from the pre-confession statements as leads for tracking down the criminals (R. 135–145).

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