DAVIS v. MISSISSIPPI

No. 60, Misc.

393 U.S. 821 (1968)

DAVIS v. MISSISSIPPI.

Supreme Court of United States.

October 14, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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.


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...

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