Supreme Court of the United States, 1968

Davis v. Mississippi

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided October 19, 1968

393 U.S. 821 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Jack Greenberg, Michael Meltsner, Melvyn Zarr, Anthony G. Amsterdam, and Jack Young for petitioner., Joe T. Patterson, Attorney General of Mississippi, and G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

Cases that cite this one

1 later published case cites this decision.

Johnson v. State (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1978)

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Opinion

Sup. Ct. Miss. Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Certiorari granted limited to the first question presented by the petition which reads as follows: “Whether the introduction into evidence at petitioner’s criminal trial of his fingerprints, taken as a result of petitioner’s illegal arrest, violated petitioner’s rights, under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments?” Case transferred to appellate docket.

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