379 U.S. 815
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided October 12, 1964
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1964-10-12
Cited together with Glasser v. United States · Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · United States v. Houlihan
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Decided 1964-10-12
Cited by 1,939 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Pointer v. Texas (1965), Armstrong v. Manzo (1965)
1,055 federal appellate · 96 district · 209 state decisions — followed in 39 states
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¶1Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Alabama' granted limited to Question 1 presented by the petition which reads as follows:
“1. Is the defendant in a criminal trial deprived of due process of law when the prosecutor knowingly calls an alleged accomplice to the stand to secure from him a refusal to testify and when his presence on the stand is used as a pretense for reading to the jury an alleged confession of the witness which is inadmissible against the defendant?”