LOFTUS v. ILLINOIS

No. 59.

334 U.S. 804 (1948)

LOFTUS v. ILLINOIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 14, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry H. Fowler argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

William C. Wines, Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was George F. Barrett, Attorney General.


PER CURIAM.

By way of an original writ of error in the Supreme Court of Illinois, petitioner challenged the validity of four convictions in a circuit court of that State. The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the judgments, 395 Ill. 479, 70 N.E.2d 573. We brought the case here, 333 U.S. 831, because of a serious claim that petitioner was denied the assistance of counsel under circumstances which constitute a disregard of the safeguards to which he was entitled under...

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