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CULOMBE v. CONNECTICUT

No. 161.

367 U.S. 568 (1961)

CULOMBE v. CONNECTICUT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 19, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander A. Goldfarb argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

John D. LaBelle argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.

John J. Hunt filed a brief for the Connecticut Association for Retarded Children, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER announced the judgment of the Court and an opinion in which MR. JUSTICE STEWART joins.

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 defendant's confessions, decisive for the conviction, were admitted into evidence in accordance...

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