Loftus v. Illinois

By way of an original writ of error in the Supreme Court of Illinois, petitioner challenged the validity of four convictions in a circuit court of that State. The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the, judgments, 395 Ill. 479, 70 N. E. 2d 573. We brought the case here, 333 U. S. 831, because of a serious claim that petitioner was denied the assistance of counsel under circumstances which constitute a disregard of the safeguards to which he was entitled under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Illinois Supreme Court disposed of this claim on. the basis of the requirements of…