Legal Opinion
Brookhart v. Janis
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 18, 1966No. 657PublishedCited by 1,061 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
The petitioner, James Brookhart, while serving the first of three consecutive sentences of from one to 20 years imposed by an Ohio Court of Common Pleas upon convictions of forgery and uttering forged instruments, 1 brought this action for habeas corpus in the Supreme Court of Ohio. There is no question raised about that court’s jurisdiction. Petitioner charged and contends here that all his convictions are constitutionally invalid because obtained in a trial that denied him his federally guaranteed constitutional right to confront the witnesses against him (a) by permitting the State to…
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