Legal Opinion

United States of America Ex Rel. Spencer Broaddus, E-9299 v. A. T. Rundle, Superintendent

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided July 21, 1970No. 17935PublishedCited by 19 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.

On August 15, 1958, a housing project guard in Philadelphia was found shot to death in the incinerator room. Three days later, Spencer Broaddus, informed that the police were looking for him in connection with the homicide, appeared at a police station at midnight and submitted to an interrogation which lasted through the night. Toward morning, during a polygraph test, Broaddus admitted shooting the guard and implicated an accomplice, Murray Dickerson. 1

That afternoon Dickerson also voluntarily surrendered to the police and was turned over to the…

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2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  2. McMann v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  3. Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  4. Henry v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  5. Parker v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970

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3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. SchmidtSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
  2. Commonwealth v. WardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1971
  3. United States of America Ex Rel. Murray Dickerson v. Alfred T. Rundle, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution,philadelphia, PennsylvaniaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1970
  4. United States of America Ex Rel. Lonnie Davis, E-5076 v. Robert L. Johnson, Superintendent, and the District Attorney of PhiladelphiacountyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1974
  5. Herbert F. Smith, Jr. v. Howard Yeager, Warden, New Jersey State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1972

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