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Gamble v. Oklahoma  

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  • In Gamble v. Oklahoma, 583 F.2d 1161 (1978), the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sought to clarify the degree to which federal courts could grant habeas corpus relief to a defendant who had been convicted of a crime in state court using evidence tainted by a violation of the Fourth Amendment. Officers Donald Bell and Robert Boston had driven to a Tulsa residence on November 20, 1974, to execute a search warrant. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; Gamble v. Oklahoma (1978)]

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  • 1978

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Gamble_v._Oklahoma

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