← Cases

Thomas v. United States

386 U.S. 975 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1967-03-20 Docket No. 1027 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Douglas J.

Contents
p. 975
No. 1027.
Thomas v. United States.
Newton B. Schwartz for petitioner. Solicitor General Marshall, Assistant Attorney General Vinson and Beatrice Rosenberg for the United States.

C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.

dissenting.

I would grant this petition on the fourth question. It concerns the apparent practice of Internal Revenue agents in examining taxpayers and using the evidence obtained in criminal prosecutions when the taxpayers are given no warning as-to their rights, including the right to have an attorney present. This is not an in-custody case, but it is a coercive examination of a taxpayer at a critical preliminary hearing, so to speak, and the question presented apparently is a recurring one.