ESTES v. TEXAS

No. 256.

379 U.S. 928 (1964)

ESTES v. TEXAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

December 7, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hume Cofer and John D. Cofer for petitioner. Waggoner Carr, Attorney General of Texas, and Howard M. Fender, Gilbert J. Pena and Allo B. Crow, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, for respondent.


Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas granted limited to Question 2 presented by the petition which reads as follows:

"Whether the action of the trial court, over petitioner's continued objection, denied him due process of law and equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, in requiring petitioner to submit to live television of his trial, and in refusing to adopt in this...

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