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Charles Katz was a sports bettor who by the mid-1960s had become "probably the preeminent college basketball handicapper in America." In 1965, Katz regularly used a public telephone booth near his apartment on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles to communicate his gambling handicaps to bookmakers in Boston and Miami.
Apr 10, 2018 · Law professors Jeffrey Rosen and Jamil Jaffer talked about the 1967 Supreme Court case [Katz v. United States], which concerned Charles Katz, a bookie recorded by the FBI transmitting illegal...
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Charles Katz was probably the preeminent college basketball handicapper in America in 1967. He lived in an apartment building on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. On most days he would stroll from his apartment to a group of three public telephone booths that were also located on Sunset Boulevard.
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Apr 12, 2018 · In this 1967 Supreme Court case, Charles Katz, a bookie, was recorded by the FBI transmitting illegal bets from a telephone booth. The Supreme Court’s decision in the case expanded Americans ...
Dec 18, 2018 · On December 18, 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in Katz v. United States, expanding the Fourth Amendment protection against “unreasonable searches and seizures” to cover electronic wiretaps. Charles Katz lived in Los Angeles and was one of the leading basketball handicappers in the country in the 1960s.
The petitioner was convicted in the District Court for the Southern District of California under an eight-count indictment charging him with transmitting wagering information by telephone from Los Angeles to Miami and Boston in violation of a federal statute. 1 At trial the Government was permitted, over the petitioner's objection, to introduce ...
Charles Katz was a career gambler and the petitioner in Katz v. United States. Katz was charged with conducting illegal gambling operations across state lines in violation of federal law.
