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Police warrantless home searches ruling [US SC]

Brigham City v. Stuart, Supreme Court of the United States, May 22, 2006 [ruling that police can enter a home without a warrant when they have not knocked or announced their presence if they have an objectively reasonable basis to believe that someone inside the home has been seriously injured or there is an imminent threat of injury]. Read the full text of the Opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., with a Concurrence by Justice John Paul Stevens.

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Seventeen tried in Stalin purge

On January 23, 1937, seventeen of Joseph Stalin's political enemies went on trial in Moscow during the Soviet leader's Great Purge. This trial of seventeen represented the second of the three "Moscow Trials" in which prominent Soviet leaders were accused and convicted of conspiring to overthrow the Soviet state under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code. The defendants were sentenced to execution or deportation to work camps.

24th Amendment to US Constitution ratified

On January 23, 1964, the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified. Learn more about the 24th Amendment and poll taxes from the National Constitution Center.