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Washington v. Texas, 388 U.S. 14 (1967)
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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.
Washington v. Texas, 388 U.S. 14 (1967)
Washington v. Texas No. 649 Argued March 15-16, 1967 Decided June 12, 1967 388 U.S. 14
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS
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Petitioner and another were charged with a fatal shooting. Petitioner’s alleged co-participant was tried first and convicted of murder. At petitioner’s trial for the same murder, he sought to secure his co-participant’s testimony, which would have been vital for his defense. On the basis of two Texas statutes which, at the time of trial, prevented a participant accused of a crime from testifying for his coparticipant (but not for the prosecution), the judge sustained the State’s objection to the coparticipant’s testimony. Petitioner’s conviction ensued, and was upheld on appeal.
Held:
1. The right under the Sixth Amendment of a defendant in a criminal case to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor applies to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment. Pp. 17-19.
2. The State arbitrarily denied petitioner the right to have the material testimony for him of a witness concerning events which that witness observed, and thus denied him the right to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor. Pp. 19-23.
400 S.W.2d 756, reversed.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Washington v. Texas, 388 U.S. 14 (1967) in 388 U.S. 14 Original Sources, accessed November 24, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=S3SDDG5TCXP32JQ.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Washington v. Texas, 388 U.S. 14 (1967), in 388 U.S. 14, Original Sources. 24 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=S3SDDG5TCXP32JQ.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Washington v. Texas, 388 U.S. 14 (1967). cited in 1967, 388 U.S. 14. Original Sources, retrieved 24 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=S3SDDG5TCXP32JQ.
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