Beecher v. Alabama
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{{Infobox SCOTUS case
|Litigants=Beecher v. Alabama
|ArgueDate=
|ArgueYear=
|DecideDate=October 23
|DecideYear=1967
|FullName=Beecher v. Alabama
|USVol=389
|USPage=35
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|Prior=
|Subsequent=
|Holding=Eliciting a confession from a suspect while he was under the influence of morphine and recovering from a gunshot wound violated the Due Process Clause.
|PerCuriam=Yes
|Concurrence=Black
|Concurrence2=Brennan
|JoinConcurrence2=Warren, Douglas
|LawsApplied=
}}
Beecher v. Alabama, 389 U.S. 35 (1967), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that eliciting a confession from a suspect while he was under the influence of morphine and recovering from a gunshot wound violated the Due Process Clause.{{ussc|name=Beecher v. Alabama|volume=389|page=35|year=1967}}{{Cite book |last=Stephens, Jr. |first=Otis H. |title=The Supreme Court and Confessions of Guilt |year=1973 |pages=149–150}}
Description
Although the decision was unanimous and unsigned, the four concurring justices disagreed with describing this as a violation of the Due Process Clause. The four would have described it as a violation of the Fifth Amendment's self-incrimination protections, which had recently been incorporated against the states in Malloy v. Hogan.
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External links
- {{caselaw source
| case = Beecher v. Alabama, 389 U.S. 35 (1967)
| cornell = https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/389/35
| findlaw = https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/389/35.html
| justia = https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/389/35/case.html
}}
Category:1967 in United States case law
Category:United States Supreme Court cases
Category:United States Supreme Court cases of the Warren Court
Category:United States criminal due process case law
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