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In Katz v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled on whether police could tap

a public phone without a warrant. Identify one way in which the case is legally
significant.

In Katz v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled on whether police could tap a public-example-1
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Answer: the expectation of privacy test

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Answer: D. It established the idea of a reasonable expectation of privacy.

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In Katz v. United States, the FBI had arrested Charles Katz who was into illegal sports betting after listening in on his conversation in a phone booth without a search warrant. They listened to his conversation from outside the phone booth because they did not want to break the Fourth Amendment which demanded that they use a warrant.

The lower courts supported the FBI until the case reached the Supreme Court which stated that the FBI was in breach of the Fourth Amendment because of the idea of a reasonable expectation of privacy which meant that even if a person was in the public domain, there were things that they wanted to keep private and the Fourth Amendment protected this.

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