https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b en-us 2018-11-29 19:32:58 UTC 2025-10-03 16:23:07 UTC hello@padlet.com mary_pitcher https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b/wish/309516182 Rudolf Ivanovich Abel worked at an artist’s studio in Brooklyn Heights, New York while living in New York. In early May of 1957, Reino Hayhanen informed the American Embassy in Paris that he had been acting as a secret agent for the Soviet Union in the United States since 1952. He also informed the embassy that he had assisted a Soviet agent named Mark who was a resident agent in the United States with the military rank of colonel. FBI agents began a long investigation of Abel, but did not obtain a warrant of arrest or a search warrant relating to Abel. The case was found to be unconstitutional because the FBI/ police violated Abel's fourth amendment rights. The case was
-ARGUED: Feb 24 - 25, 1959
-REARGUED: Nov 9, 1959
-DECIDED: Mar 28, 1960


]]> 2018-11-29 19:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b/wish/309516182 mary_pitcher https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b/wish/309517090 This case violated the 4th amendment because it clearly states that the FBI agents began an investigation of Abel and his belongings without obtaining a warrant of arrest or a search warrant relating to Abel. Specifically,  INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) agents packed up all of Abel’s personal effects in the room of a hotel they found him in. They seized over two hundred items but found no weapons or evidence of alienage; the FBI also seized several items after an agent checked Abel out of the hotel, including three items contested at trial. Due to the fact that they did not have a warrant, violated Abel's fourth amendment rights. 


]]> 2018-11-29 19:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b/wish/309517090 madeline_susedi https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b/wish/309517805 "Abel v. United States." Oyez, 2 Dec. 2018, www.oyez.org/cases/1959/2.

“Abel v. United States, 362 U.S. 217 (1960).” Justia Law, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/362/217/.

Epps, Garrett. “The Curious Supreme Court Case Behind 'Bridge of Spies'.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 17 Nov. 2015, www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/abel-bridge-of-spies/416325/.




]]> 2018-11-29 19:44:23 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b/wish/309517805 madeline_susedi https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b/wish/309519261 A link to the search and seizure case.]]> 2018-11-29 19:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b/wish/309519261 madeline_susedi https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b/wish/310233353 Below is an image of a search warrant. The reason why I chose this image is because in the case of Abel vs the United States, the INS agents did not initially have a search warrant when they entered and seized items from Abel's room at the Latham Hotel in Manhattan . This is an important factor to the case because had the FBI and INS actually obtained a search warrant  - as well as warrant of arrest - they wouldn't have violated the 4th Amendment. ]]> 2018-12-02 22:51:00 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b/wish/310233353 madeline_susedi https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b/wish/310236443 I chose an image of the symbol for the INS, because they played a major role in this search and seizure case. The INS went about searching and investigating Abel in a backwards order. When Abel was in the maximum security camp in McAllen, TX, they interrogated him for 4 weeks. When he admitted he was in the U.S. illegally, and the case was brought to court in New York, the INS then got a warrant for arrest and a search warrant to valid his arrest. This image helps summarize the case because it shows an important factor of who was involved.]]> 2018-12-02 23:18:14 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b/wish/310236443 mary_pitcher https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b/wish/310518246 I chose to include a picture of the Soviet Union flag to explain a little bit of background of the relationship between America and the Soviet Union. This is to set the context as to what was taking place during this time in history. When this incident took place  in the late 1950's, America and the Soviet Union was in the midst of a cold war in which The US and the Soviet Union competed for political, economic and military influence all over the world. We were basically enemies which is why a lot of Americans had superstitions about who they could trust and who could possibly be a spy in America. ]]> 2018-12-03 16:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_susedi/aaxmwjtaf05b/wish/310518246