Brown v. Mississippi

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1936-02-17

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Mr. Chief Justice Hughes delivered the opinion of the Court. The question in this case is whether convictions, which rest solely upon confessions shown to have been extorted by officers of the.State by brutality and violence, are consistent with the due process of law required by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. <p "b…

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