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MOORE v. MICHIGAN

No. 42.

355 U.S. 155 (1957)

78 S.Ct. 191

2 L.Ed.2d 167

MOORE v. MICHIGAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 9, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Culver, acting under appointment by the Court, 352 U.S. 958, argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Samuel J. Torina, Solicitor General of Michigan, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Thomas M. Kavanagh, Attorney General, Jacob A. Dalm, Jr. and J. Douglas Cook.

MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

On October 29, 1938, the Circuit Court of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, accepted the petitioner's plea of guilty to an information charging him with the murder of an elderly white lady. He was sentenced to solitary confinement at hard labor for life in Michigan's Jackson Prison, where he has since been confined.1 Petitioner, a Negro with a seventh-grade education, was 17 years old at...

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