Legal Opinion
Lee v. Illinois
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 3, 1986No. 84-6807PublishedCited by 987 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
Petitioner and a codefendant, charged with committing a double murder, were tried jointly in a bench trial. Neither defendant testified at trial. In finding petitioner guilty as charged, the trial judge expressly relied on portions of the co-defendant’s confession, obtained by police at the time of arrest, as substantive evidence against petitioner. The question for decision is whether such reliance by the judge upon the codefendant’s confession violated petitioner’s rights as secured by the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment,1 as applied to the States through the Fourteenth…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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3Cited by987 opinions
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