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Reck v. Pate, 367 U.S. 433 (1961)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Reck v. Pate, 367 U.S. 433 (1961)
Reck v. Pate No. 181 Argued April 19, 1961 Decided June 12, 1961 367 U.S. 433
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT
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Petitioner, then a mentally retarded 19-year-old youth with no criminal record, was arrested in 1936 on suspicion of stealing bicycles. After being held virtually incommunicado and interrogated by groups of police officers for nearly four days while sick and faint, inadequately fed, without a hearing, and without the advice of counsel, family or friends, he confessed to participation in a murder. At his trial in an Illinois State Court for murder, his two written confessions were admitted in evidence over his timely objection, and he was convicted and sentenced to prison for 199 years.
Held: on the record in this case, petitioner’s confessions were coerced, and the State violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by using them as evidence in his trial. Pp. 433-444.
274 F.2d 250, judgment vacated and case remanded.
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MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Reck v. Pate, 367 U.S. 433 (1961), in 367 U.S. 433, Original Sources. 24 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=C934MJPLPDXVLCG.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Reck v. Pate, 367 U.S. 433 (1961). cited in 1961, 367 U.S. 433. Original Sources, retrieved 24 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=C934MJPLPDXVLCG.
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