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 October 08, 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

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