Hamilton v. Alabama
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| Hamilton v. Alabama | |||||||||||
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| Argued October 17, 1961 Decided November 13, 1961 |
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| Absence of counsel for petitioner at the time of his arraignment violated his rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. | |||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: Earl Warren Associate Justices: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Tom C. Clark, John Marshall Harlan II, William J. Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker, Potter Stewart |
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| Majority by: Douglas Joined by: unanimous |
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| U.S. Const. amend. XIV | |||||||||||
Hamilton v. Alabama, 368 U.S. 52 (1961), was a case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States. Hamilton, charged in an Alabama court with breaking and entering a dwelling at night with intent to ravish, had pled not guilty. He had then been convicted and sentenced to death. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the absence of counsel at the time of his arraignment violated his rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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