Legal Opinion
Townsend v. Sain
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 18, 1963No. 8PublishedCited by 4,382 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Warren
This case, in its present posture raising questions as to the right to a plenary hearing in federal habeas corpus, comes to us once again after a tangle of prior proceedings. In 1955 the petitioner, Charles Townsend, was tried before a jury for murder in the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois. At his trial petitioner, through his court-appointed counsel, the public defender, objected to the *296introduction of his confession on the ground that it was the product of coercion. A hearing was held outside the presence of the jury, and the trial judge denied the motion to suppress. He later…
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