Hamilton v. Alabama

Hamilton v. Alabama

SCOTUSCase
Litigants=Hamilton v. Alabama
ArgueDate=October 17
ArgueYear=1961
DecideDate=November 13
DecideYear=1961
FullName=Hamilton v. Alabama
USVol=368
USPage=52
Citation=82 S. Ct. 157; 7 L. Ed. 2d 114; 1961 U.S. LEXIS 167
Prior=Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Alabama
Subsequent=
Holding=Absence of counsel for petitioner at the time of his arraignment violated his rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
SCOTUS=1958-1962
Majority=Douglas
JoinMajority="unanimous"
LawsApplied=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 plead not guilty. He had then been convicted and sentenced to death. The Court ruled unanimously that the absence of counsel at the time of his arraignment violated Hamilton's due process under the Fourteenth Amendment.

ee also

*List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 368

External links

* [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=368&invol=52 case at FindLaw]


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