Boston College Law Review Volume 20 Article 7 Issue 4 Number 4 5-1-1979 Search and Seizure of a Third-Party Newspaper: Zurcher, Chief of Police pf Palo Alto v. Stanford Daily Jeffrey P. Buhrman Follow this and additional works at: http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclr Part of the First Amendment Commons, Fourteenth Amendment Commons, Fourth Amendment Commons, and the Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons Recommended Citation Jeffrey P. Buhrman, Search and Seizure of a Third-Party Newspaper: Zurcher, Chief of Police pf Palo Alto v. Stanford Daily, 20 B.C.L. Rev. 783 (1979), http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclr/vol20/iss4/7 This Casenotes is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Boston College Law Review by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Search and Seizure of a Third-Party Newspaper: Zurcher, Chief of Police of Palo Alto v. Stanford Daily '—On April 9, 1971, nine officers of the Palo Alto Police Department were assaulted while attempting to disperse a demonstra- tion at the Stanford University Hospital.' Two days later, the Stanford Daily, the Stanford University student newspaper, published articles and photo- graphs of the protest. 3 Although the Daily did not publish photographs of the actual assault, the published pictures and text suggested that a Daily photographer had been in the area of the assault." The following day, the Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney obtained a warrant to search the Stanford Daily offices for negatives and photographs relevant to identifying the assailants.