Legal Opinion
Spano v. New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 22, 1959No. 582PublishedCited by 1,136 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Warren
delivered the -opinion of the Court.
This is another in the long line of cases presenting the question whether a confession was properly admitted into evidence under the Fourteenth' Amendment. As in all such cases, we are forced to resolve a conflict between two fundamental interests of society; its interest in prompt and efficient law enforcement, and’its interest in preventing the rights of its individual members from being abridged by unconstitutional methods of law enforcement. *316Because of the delicate nature of the- constitutional determination which we must make, we cannot escape' the…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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- Brown v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1936
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3Cited by1,136 opinions
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- United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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