Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
November 1986
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Holt v. United States · Maxwell v. State · Bailey v. State · Higdon v. State · Nicholas v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Another objection is based upon an extravagant extension of the Fifth Amendment. A question arose as to whether a blouse belonged to the prisoner. A witness testified that the prisoner put it on and it fitted him. It is objected that he did this under the same duress that made his statements inadmissible, and that it should be excluded for the same reasons. But the prohibitions of compelling a man in a criminal court to be a witness against himself is a prohibition of the use of physical, and moral compulsion to extort communications from him, not an exclusion of his body as evidence when it may be material. The objection in principle would forbid a jury to look at a prisoner and compare his features with a photograph in proof. Holt v. United States, 218 U.S. 245 (1910), at 252.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weatherford v. State
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