ESTES v. TEXAS

No. 256.

381 U.S. 532 (1965)

ESTES v. TEXAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 7, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Cofer and Hume Cofer argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Waggoner Carr, Attorney General of Texas, and Leon Jaworski, Special Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent. With them on the brief were Hawthorne Phillips, Stanton Stone. Howard M. Fender and Gilbert J. Pena, Assistant Attorneys General, and Alton F. Curry, Special Assistant Attorney General.

Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed by Whitney North Seymour, Richmond C. Coburn and John H. Yauch for the American Bar Association, and by Norman Dorsen and Melvin L. Wulf for the American Civil Liberties Union et al.

Briefs of amici curiae, urging affirmance, were filed by Davis Grant for the State Bar of Texas, joined by Duke W. Dunbar, Attorney General of Colorado; and by Douglas A. Anello, W. Theodore Pierson and Harold David Cohen for the National Association of Broadcasters et al.


MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court.*

The question presented here is whether the petitioner, who stands convicted in the District Court for the Seventh Judicial District of Texas at Tyler for swindling,1 was deprived of his right under the Fourteenth Amendment to due process by the televising and broadcasting of his trial. Both the trial court and...

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