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Beecher v. Alabama, 389 U.S. 35 (1967)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Beecher v. Alabama, 389 U.S. 35 (1967)
Beecher v. Alabama No. 92, Misc. Decided October 23, 1967 389 U.S. 35
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE
SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA
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Petitioner, already wounded by Tennessee police, confessed to a rape-murder under gunpoint threat to do so or be killed. Five days later, with "no break in the stream of events," Clewis v. Texas, 386 U.S. 707, 710, when still in pain in a prison hospital and under the influence of drugs, he was directed to tell Alabama investigators "what they wanted to know." He thereupon signed confessions, which were admitted into evidence over his objections at his trial. He was convicted, and the Alabama Supreme Court affirmed.
Held: The use of petitioner’s confessions, the product of gross coercion, violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Certiorari granted; 280 Ala. 283, 193 So.2d 505, reversed.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Beecher v. Alabama, 389 U.S. 35 (1967) in 389 U.S. 35 Original Sources, accessed April 23, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=QC3CER5FRU1UQTW.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Beecher v. Alabama, 389 U.S. 35 (1967), in 389 U.S. 35, Original Sources. 23 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=QC3CER5FRU1UQTW.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Beecher v. Alabama, 389 U.S. 35 (1967). cited in 1967, 389 U.S. 35. Original Sources, retrieved 23 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=QC3CER5FRU1UQTW.
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