Legal Opinion
Dutton v. Evans
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 15, 1970No. 10PublishedCited by 1,859 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*76Mr. Justice Stewabt
announced the judgment .of the Court and an opinion in which The Chief Justice, Me. Justice White, and Mr. Justice Blackmun join.
Early on an April morning in 1964, three police officers were brutally murdered in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Their bodies were found a few hours later, handcuffed together in a pine thicket, each with multiple gunshot wounds in the back of the head. After many months of investigation, Georgia authorities charged the appel-lee, Evans, and two other men, Wade Truett and Yenson Williams, with the officers’ murders. Evans and Williams were indicted by…
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