Telegram re: Police Searches Without Warrants
Press Release
December 30, 1965
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Press Releases, Volume 3. Telegram re: Police Searches Without Warrants, 1965. f521909b-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/78a530e6-bb91-418b-884d-6e43c4a66778/telegram-re-police-searches-without-warrants. Accessed November 23, 2025.
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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and attorneys for the
Baltimore NAACP branch today Thursday, Dec. 30) asked the Fourth U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond to enjoin Baltimore police from
searching private buildings without search warrants. Appealing a Federal
District Court's refusal to issue the injunction in Baltimore last April,
the two civil rights organizations are seeking to prevent repetition of
incidents that occurred a year ago. Police armed with arrest warrants for
two roes, Samuel and Earl Veney, but no search warrants, searched more
‘than 300 Negro-oecupied buildings. The Veney brothers had allegedly heid
up a liquor store on Christmas Eve, 1964, and subsequently shot two white
licemen, FOR FURTHER information contact Atty. James M. Nabrit IIT
York City, (212) JU 68397 or Mrs. Juanita ackson Mitchell, Baltimore (301) LA 3-1142,
EDWIN WILEY, PUBLIC INFORMATION ASSISTANT
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC.
10 Columbus Circle, Suite 2030, NYC