BEECHER v. ALABAMA ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA No. 71-6497. Decided June 26, 1972 After this Court reversed petitioner’s 1964 murder conviction on the ground that written confessions used as evidence in his trial were involuntary as the products of gross coercion and thus violated due process, petitioner […]
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408 U.S. 234
408 U.S. 234 92 S.Ct. 2282 33 L.Ed.2d 317 Johnny Daniel BEECHERv.State of ALABAMA. No. 71?6497. June 26, 1972. PER CURIAM. 1 In 1964 the petitioner was tried and convicted in an Alabama state court for first-degree murder. He was sentenced to death. The conviction was based in large part on written confessions that he […]