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LYONS v. OKLAHOMA

No. 433.

322 U.S. 596 (1944)

LYONS v. OKLAHOMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 5, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thurgood Marshall, with whom Messrs. Amos T. Hall, William H. Hastie, and Leon A. Ransom were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Sam H. Lattimore, Assistant Attorney General of Oklahoma, with whom Mr. Randell S. Cobb, Attorney General, was on the brief, for respondent.

Mr. Morris L. Ernst filed a brief on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

This writ brings to this Court for review a conviction obtained with the aid of a confession which furnished, if voluntary, material evidence to support the conviction. As the questioned confession followed a previous confession which was given on the same day and which was admittedly involuntary,1 the issue is the voluntary character of the...

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