In 1928, in Olmstead v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court examined the issue of whether evidence gathered through warrantless wiretaps of home and business telephone lines was obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The majority of the justices found that:
A) The evidence-conversations-was heard and did not amount to a search and seizure of a physical object.
B) The defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy when transmitting information over telephone lines that he did not own.
C) While the telephone lines did enter the home, the wiretaps were placed outside of his home and thus did not amount to an intrusion into the home.
D) All of the above
E) Only a and c
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