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Constitutional Law-Due Process Of Law-Freedom From Unreasonable Search And Seizure-The Admissibility Of Illegally Seized Evidence, Bernard Goldstone S.Ed.
Constitutional Law-Due Process Of Law-Freedom From Unreasonable Search And Seizure-The Admissibility Of Illegally Seized Evidence, Bernard Goldstone S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Local police officers entered the private office of petitioner, a practising physician, without a warrant and seized his private books and records. As a result of the information thus obtained, petitioner was convicted of conspiracy to perform an abortion. Petitioner claimed that his constitutional rights were invaded contending that due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment includes freedom from unreasonable search and seizure and prevents the admission of illegally seized evidence, but this was denied by the Supreme Court of Colorado and the conviction was affirmed. On certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States, held, affirmed, …
Appeal And Error-Eisler's Flight And The Case And Controversy Question, Albert B. Perlin, Jr. S.Ed.
Appeal And Error-Eisler's Flight And The Case And Controversy Question, Albert B. Perlin, Jr. S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
The United States Supreme Court granted certiorari to review a federal court conviction on a charge of contempt of Congress. Pending determination of the appeal, appellant was released on bail and, after argument on the merits but before a decision had been rendered, he wrongfully fled the country. Subsequently the Attorney General notified the Court that appellant had been apprehended in England at the request of the Secretary of State and that a court of competent jurisdiction there found that appellant was not guilty of an extraditable offense under English law. The Court of its own motion then considered the …
Constitutional Law--Commerce Clause--Due Process--State Taxation Of Interstate Barges, E. Blythe Stason, Jr.
Constitutional Law--Commerce Clause--Due Process--State Taxation Of Interstate Barges, E. Blythe Stason, Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Action was brought to recover ad valorem taxes assessed and collected by the City of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana on plaintiff's freight ba1ges used in interstate commerce. Plaintiff was a foreign corporation, and its barges were enrolled at ports outside Louisiana but were not taxed by the state of incorporation. They moved, without a fixed schedule, on the Mississippi River. The tax was apportioned on the basis of miles travelled in Louisiana to miles travelled everywhere. Plaintiff argued that the tax violated the due process and commerce clauses of the Constitution because the vessels acquired no tax …
Evidence-Federal Criminal Procedure-Admissibility Of Confession Obtained During Illegal Detention, William F. Snyder S. Ed.
Evidence-Federal Criminal Procedure-Admissibility Of Confession Obtained During Illegal Detention, William F. Snyder S. Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Petitioner was arrested without a warrant on suspicion of larceny. He was held without commitment for a period of thirty hours during which he was intermittently questioned but was not subjected to any form of physical coercion. At the end of this period, he signed a confession which was the basis for his conviction in the district court. On certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, following affirmation in the court of appeals, held, reversed. The detention was unlawful as a violation of rule 5 (a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and the confession thus obtained was …
Labor Law-Constitutional Law-State Anti-Closed Shop Legislation Upheld, Jerry S. Mccroskey S. Ed.
Labor Law-Constitutional Law-State Anti-Closed Shop Legislation Upheld, Jerry S. Mccroskey S. Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Appellant, a local union of the American Federation of Labor, sought a declaratory judgment and equitable relief in the Nebraska courts as a result of appellee's refusal to discharge certain employees who had failed to maintain membership in the union. The employer relied on an anti-closed shop amendment to the Nebraska Constitution forbidding discrimination in employment on the basis of affiliation with a union and prohibiting contracts for this purpose. Appellant's assertions of invalidity of the amendment under the Federal Constitution were rejected by the state courts. Upon appeal to the United States Supreme Court, held affirmed, all justices concurring. …
Habeas Corpus-Federal Courts-Exhaustion Of State Remedies, E. W. Rothe, Jr.
Habeas Corpus-Federal Courts-Exhaustion Of State Remedies, E. W. Rothe, Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Petitioner's writ of habeas corpus, alleging denial of due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, was quashed on the merits by an inferior Florida court whose action was affirmed without opinion by the Florida Supreme Court. It was impossible to ascertain whether the affirmance was on the merits or on the ground that, under Florida law, habeas corpus was not the proper procedure to raise the due process issue. A later decision by the Florida Supreme Court clearly established that the prior case had been decided on the merits of the constitutional question, and that habeas corpus …
Constitutional Law-Due Process-Federal Right To Counsel In Non-Capital Cases In State Courts, J. D. Mcleod
Constitutional Law-Due Process-Federal Right To Counsel In Non-Capital Cases In State Courts, J. D. Mcleod
Michigan Law Review
Petitioner was convicted in Illinois on pleas of guilty to two indictments charging him with a non-capital offense. On writ of error to the Supreme Court of Illinois, petitioner alleged that the trial court had not inquired into his desire or ability to have counsel and that he had been convicted without having had assistance of counsel. His contention that the circumstances alleged constituted a violation of the State and Federal Constitutions was overruled, and the judgments of the lower court affirmed. On certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, held affirmed. The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment …
Constitutional Law-Due Process-Right Of Prisoner Condemned To Death To Hearing On His Sanity, E. Blythe Stason Jr.
Constitutional Law-Due Process-Right Of Prisoner Condemned To Death To Hearing On His Sanity, E. Blythe Stason Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Petitioner, sentenced to death in California for murder, obtained a judicial stay of execution on the ground that he had become insane since sentence had been passed. Eighteen days later he was certified as sane by the medical superintendent of the state hospital, who made this determination by an ex parte examination without giving petitioner notice or opportunity of hearing. A new date for execution was then set. The applicable statute provided a procedure, enforceable by mandamus, whereby a sentenced prisoner could obtain a hearing on his sanity. The petitioner, without seeking mandamus to compel the warden to act, applied …
Criminal Law-Withdrawal Of A Plea Of Guilty, Andrew W. Lockton, Iii S.Ed.
Criminal Law-Withdrawal Of A Plea Of Guilty, Andrew W. Lockton, Iii S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Defendant pleaded guilty to a charge of statutory rape. After questioning him the court accepted his plea, and sentence was deferred pending an investigation by the probation and psychopathic departments. Before being sentenced, defendant requested that his plea be changed but did not deny that he was guilty. The court refused his request and sentenced him. Held, defendant should have been allowed to withdraw his plea of guilty. People v. Anderson, 321 Mich. 533, 33 N.W. (2d) 72 (1948).
Constitutional Law--Anti-Lynching Legislation, William B. Harvey S.Ed.
Constitutional Law--Anti-Lynching Legislation, William B. Harvey S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Despite progress in recent years toward the elimination of lynching, the demand for adequate federal legislation to cope with the problem is unabated. For almost three decades Congress has considered a succession of anti-lynching bills, most of which have been favorably reported by committees. None has become law. Legislators and others opposing the enactment of a federal anti-lynching act have placed primary reliance on an asserted lack of constitutionality. It is argued that lynching is merely local crime within the scope of the power and responsibility of the states to enforce their own criminal law. The purpose of this comment …
Criminal Law-New Trial-Absence Of Accused From Trial Because Of Attorney's Negligence, Alan Goldstein
Criminal Law-New Trial-Absence Of Accused From Trial Because Of Attorney's Negligence, Alan Goldstein
Michigan Law Review
Defendant, represented by an attorney, was ordered, under an appearance bond, to appear at the November term of the court of general sessions to answer to an indictment for assault and battery with intent to kill. The indictment was not prepared during the November term, and at the end of the term the court ordered all those whose cases were not called to appear at the next term of court. At the February term defendant's case came up, but his attorney had apparently failed to read the court calendar, as neither the defendant nor the attorney knew that the trial …
Theory Of Pleading A Survey Including The Federal Rules, William Wirt Blume
Theory Of Pleading A Survey Including The Federal Rules, William Wirt Blume
Michigan Law Review
In an often-quoted report of a committee of the American Bar Association, Roscoe Pound stated: "Pleadings have four purposes: (1) The first is to serve as a formal basis for the judgment. This is the oldest function, and one that goes back before the time of rational, as distinguished from purely mechanical trial of issues. . . . (2) Another is to separate issues of fact from questions of law .... (3) Another is to give litigants the advantage of a plea of res judicata if molested again for the same cause .... (4) Finally, pleadings exist to notify parties …