SIMS v. GEORGIA

No. 251.

385 U.S. 538 (1967)

SIMS v. GEORGIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 23, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Greenberg argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were James M. Nabrit III, Anthony G. Amsterdam and Howard Moore, Jr.

Dewey Hayes, Solicitor General of Georgia, and E. Freeman Leverett, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent. With them on the brief was Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General.


MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner, a Negro, has been convicted of raping a white woman and has been given the death penalty. He raises five federal questions1 for consideration by this Court, among which is that his Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial were violated by the state trial judge's failure to determine the voluntariness of his alleged confession...

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