ASHDOWN v. UTAH

No. 158.

357 U.S. 426 (1958)

ASHDOWN v. UTAH.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 30, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Vernon Erickson, acting under appointment by the Court, 355 U.S. 853, argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Walter L. Budge, Deputy Attorney General of Utah, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was E. R. Callister, Attorney General.


MR. JUSTICE BURTON delivered the opinion of the Court.

A jury in a Utah court found petitioner, Mrs. Ashdown, guilty of the first-degree murder of her husband and recommended a life sentence. The question before us is whether petitioner's oral confession was obtained in such a manner as to make its use in evidence a violation of the due process of law required by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United...

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