United States ex rel. Smith v. New Jersey

On June 13, 1958, at approximately midnight, Carmine Dellorto, aged 66, was robbed and killed on a street comer in Newark, New Jersey. Ten days later, on June 23, 1958, Clarence Smith and Lee Stanford, the relators in. the cases at bar, were arrested by the Newark police and brought directly to the “Homicide Squad” room at police headquarters in Newark, arriving there at about four o’clock in the afternoon. Both Smith and Stanford were minors, 17 years of age and Negroes. No warrant had been issued for their arrests. They were separated upon their arrival at police headquarters. Stanford was…