Sheppard v. Maxwell

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1966-06-06

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Mr. Justice Clark delivered the opinion of the Court. This federal habeas corpus application involves the question whether Sheppard was deprived of a fair trial in his state conviction for the second-degree murder of his wife because of the trial judge’s failure to protect Sheppard sufficiently from the massive, pervasive and prejudicial publicity that attende…

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