Legal Opinion
Moore v. Michigan
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 9, 1957No. 42PublishedCited by 488 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beennan
On October 29, 1938, the Circuit Court of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, accepted the petitioner’s plea of guilty to an information charging him with the murder of an elderly white lady. He was sentenced to solitary confinement at hard labor for life in Michigan’s Jackson Prison, where he has since been confined.1 Petitioner, a Negro with a seventh-grade education, was 17 years old at the time. On May 26, 1950, he filed a delayed motion for a new trial in the Circuit Court. He asserted constitutional invalidity in his conviction and sentence because he did not have the assistance of counsel at…
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3Cited by488 opinions
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