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REID v. COVERT

No. 701.

351 U.S. 487 (1956)

REID, SUPERINTENDENT, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA JAIL, v. COVERT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 11, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin E. Frankel argued the cause for appellant. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Sobeloff, Assistant Attorney General Olney, Beatrice Rosenberg and Richard J. Blanchard.

Frederick Bernays Wiener argued the cause and filed a brief for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court.

Mrs. Clarice Covert was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a military court-martial which tried her at a United States Air Force base in England for the murder of her husband, an Air Force sergeant. She was brought to the United States and confined in the Federal Reformatory for Women, Alderson, West Virginia. On appeal, the United States Court of Military...

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