Culombe v. Connecticut
Supreme Court of the United States
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Frankfurter
Once again the Court is confronted with the painful duty of sitting in judgment on a State’s conviction for murder, after a jury’s verdict was found flawless by the State’s highest court, in order to determine whether the *569defendant’s confessions, decisive for the conviction, were admitted into evidence in accordance with the standards for admissibility demanded by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This recurring problem touching the administration of criminal justice by the States presents in an aggravated form in this case the anxious task of reconciling the responsibility…
Also in this document: Dissent · O’Brien; Dissent · Jackson.
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