Brown v. Mississippi
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Brown v. Mississippi, 297 U.S. 278, (1936), was a United States Supreme Court case that ruled that convictions, which are based solely upon confessions coerced by violence, violate the Due Process Clause.
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[edit] Facts of the case
Three black defendants were convicted of murdering Raymond Stewart, whose death occurred on March 30, 1934. Torture was then used in order to extract confessions from the defendants. This was the only evidence used in the subsequent one-day trial, in which they were convicted and sentenced to death. The prosecutor in this case was John Stennis, who later became a United States senator.
[edit] Judgment
In a unanimous decision, the Court reversed the convictions of the defendants, in an opinion delivered by Chief Justice Hughes. It was decided that convictions which result solely from defendants' confessions which are extracted by violence violate the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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